lindberg SARI hormesis
<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fake scientists and radiation quackery</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>EP's UK director John Lindberg </b>is described as an "expert on radiation" on the EP website.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">38</span> In fact, he has no scientific qualifications whatsoever let alone specialist qualifications regarding the health effects of ionizing radiation. Likewise, a South Korean article<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">39</span> reposted on the EP website (without correction) falsely claims that Shellenberger is a scientist; in fact, he has a degree in cultural anthropology.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lindberg is an 'Associate Member' of Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI)<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">40</span>, a group comprised mostly of quacks, cranks, non-scientists and conspiracy theorists whose views are directly at odds with those of scientific associations such as UNSCEAR.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SARI is at war with the linear, no-threshold (LNT) model ‒ the group's short 'Charter & Mission' insists three times that LNT is "misinformation".<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">41</span> Yet LNT enjoys heavy-hitting scientific support. For example the 2006 report of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation states that "the risk of cancer proceeds in a linear fashion at lower doses without a threshold and … the smallest dose has the potential to cause a small increase in risk to humans."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">34</span> Likewise, a report in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> states: "Given that it is supported by experimentally grounded, quantifiable, biophysical arguments, a linear extrapolation of cancer risks from intermediate to very low doses currently appears to be the most appropriate methodology."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">42</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2010 UNSCEAR report isn't sold on the linear part of LNT but it is at odds with SARI (and EP) on the question of a threshold. The UNSCEAR report states that "the current balance of available evidence tends to favour a non-threshold response for the mutational component of radiation-associated cancer induction at low doses and low dose rates."<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">43</span><b>By contrast, SARI promotes hormesis </b>‒ the discredited view that low-dose radiation exposure is beneficial to human health.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">44</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attacking environment groups...</font></strong></p>