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PamW

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10. Certainly the argument about what IS / IS NOT LINEAR...

Reply to kristopher (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 05:20 PM

Dec 2013

kristopher,

I believe you don't understand that the agreement on "linearity" is unanimous.

A "linear" model is a very specific, very limited, and very idealized model.

There's very few things that are truly linear; and anything as complex as the human response to radiation damage is not something one would even remotely expect as being something that was so trivially simple as being "linear".

PamW

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Radioactivity muddles the alphabet of DNA [View all] kristopher Dec 2013 OP

Yes; this has been hypothesized for some time... PamW Dec 2013 #1

That's an interesting take on the new data... kristopher Dec 2013 #2

Evidently you don't understand LINEARITY!! PamW Dec 2013 #3

Pam, ffs darkangel218 Dec 2013 #5

I CALL them as I SEE them!!! PamW Dec 2013 #6

So Im an idiot because i oppose nuclear power?? darkangel218 Dec 2013 #7

NOT at ALL!!! PamW Dec 2013 #9

I'm sorry, but you're contradicting yourself. darkangel218 Dec 2013 #11

That is the claim of the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #8

Certainly the argument about what IS / IS NOT LINEAR... PamW Dec 2013 #10

LNT theory is accepted by by everyone except those promoting the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #12

NOOO...!!! PamW Dec 2013 #13

Yeeees! kristopher Dec 2013 #14

Credentials?????? PamW Dec 2013 #15

ROFLMAO kristopher Dec 2013 #16

Kinda sucks the oxygen right out of the room huh madokie Dec 2013 #17

That's pretty much the mission of a disruptor caraher Dec 2013 #18

BALONEY!!! PamW Dec 2013 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author darkangel218 Dec 2013 #4

The sad thing is that there is an actual intelligent scientific debate to be had about LNT caraher Dec 2013 #19

"how all the mechanisms interact in a specific dose rate range" kristopher Dec 2013 #20

I think there are two somewhat parallel lines of research here caraher Dec 2013 #22

EXACTLY what I was saying above... PamW Dec 2013 #23