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54. You don't know the Gofman story...

You will also choose to ignore the words of Professor John Goffman an employee of the USAEC , “The nuclear industry is waging a war against humanity.”

Gofman was a scientist in the employ of the AEC.

However, he made some assertions that we now know are WRONG

At the time, Gofman and the AEC "parted ways" over the dispute.

In the years thereafter, Gofman said anything that would discredit the AEC.

Lots of people who leave an employer under non-friendly conditions are disgruntled and say bad things about the previous employer.

That doesn't automatically make them right.

In the case of Gofman; recent research has shown his conjectures to be 100% WRONG.

Gofman stated that radiation effects followed a Linear No Threshold (LNT) formula.

We know LNT is "conservative" in that it OVERPREDICTS the somatic effects. But Gofman said it wasn't an overprediction.

We now know that Gofman was WRONG. There are radiation damage repair mechanisms.

For example, the work of Mina Bissel of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science:

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/20/low-dose-radiation/

“Our data show that at lower doses of ionizing radiation, DNA repair mechanisms work much better than at higher doses,” says Mina Bissell, a world-renowned breast cancer researcher with Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division. “This non-linear DNA damage response casts doubt on the general assumption that any amount of ionizing radiation is harmful and additive.”

Dr. Bissel's last statement is in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to Gofman.

The judgement of SCIENCE is that Gofman was WRONG.

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