The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation / Ian Fairlie and Cindy Folkers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairlie, Ian, author.

Folkers, Cindy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radiation--Toxicology.

Radiation.

Health risk assessment.

Radiation injuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Ethics International Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

This book remembers and commemorates many brave radiation scientists, most of whom are no longer with us. These scientists published findings that radiation risks were more dangerous than officially accepted at the time. However they often suffered as a result from official displeasure, defamatory articles, and public obloquy. Scientific findings, especially recently, have revealed that these defamed and/or disadvantaged scientists were actually correct in their assessments that official risk factors for radiation were too low and needed to be increased. The lives of these scientists are discussed, from early radiation pioneers including Ernest Rutherford, Hermann Mueller and Linus Pauling, to contemporary scientists such as Steve Wing.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Part A: Introduction and Authors' Statements

Chapter 1 Introductory Remarks

Statement on Ethics

Institutional Context

Confirmation Bias

Ethics during Radiation Risk-Setting

Nuclear Power

Writing Style

Literary Conventions

References

Chapter 2 Official Monopoly on Radiation Studies

Official Secrecy

Chapter 3 Discreditation, Disapprobation and Opprobrium

Reference

Part B: Radiation Risks

Chapter 4 Recent Evidence of Increased Risks of Cancer

Definition of "Risk"

Some Background

The INWORKS Studies

Chapter 5 Newly Perceived Radiation Risks

Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke (CVD)

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Brain cancer

Gender sensitivity to radiation

Need for Safer Limits?

Part C: Honour Roll of Radiation Scientists

Chapter 6 Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)

Additional Sources of Information on Muller

Chapter 7 Professor Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)

Carbon-14 (Half life of C-14 is 5,730 years)

Strontium-90 (Half-life is 29 years)

Chapter 8 Dr Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1906-1967)

Chapter 9 Professor Alice Stewart (1906- 2002)

Chapter 10 Professor Karl Z Morgan (1907-1999)

Tritium

Chapter 11 Thomas Mancuso PhD (1912-2004)

Conclusion

Chapter 12 Jay M Gould PhD (1915-2005)

Additional Bibliography on Gould

Chapter 13 Professor John W Gofman (1918-2007)

Further Bibliography on Gofman

Chapter 14 Irwin DJ Bross PhD (1921-2004)5F

Chapter 15 George W Kneale PhD

Chapter 16 Edward Parrish Radford MD (1922-2001)

Bibliography

Chapter 17 Ernest Sternglass PhD (1923-2015)

Three Mile Island 1979

References.

Bibliography on Sternglass

Chapter 18 Professor Arthur Canfield Upton MD (1923-2015)

Chapter 19 Samuel Seymour Epstein (1926-2018)

Chapter 20 Carl Jean Johnson PhD, MD, MSc, MPH (1929-1988)

Chapter 21 Rosalie Bertell PhD (1929-2012)

Awards

Chapter 22 Dr Alexey Yablokov PhD (1933-2017)

Chernobyl - Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment

An Unbelievable Failure To Help?

Chapter 23 Dr William F Morgan (1952-2015)

Chapter 24 Professor Steven Bennett Wing (1952-2016)

Chapter 25 Emeritus Professor Eric Hall

CT Scans

Other Medical Exposures

Chapter 26 Professor David Brenner PhD (1953-)

Bibliography on Brenner

Chapter 27 Dr Yuri Bandazhevskyi (1957-)

Chapter 28 Professor Timothy Mousseau PhD (1958-)

Chapter 29 Professor Kate Brown (1965-)

Part C: Honourable Mentions

Chapter 30 Herbert M Parker MSc (1910-1984)

Chapter 31 Louise Marie Zibold Reiss (1920-2011)

Chapter 32 Professor Rudi Nussbaum PhD (1922-2011)

Chapter 33 Professor Bo Lindell (1922-2016)

Chapter 34 Dr Liane Brauch Russell (1923-2019)

Chapter 35 Wladimir Wertelecki MD PhD (1936-)

Chapter 36 Dr Helen Caldicott (1938-)

Chapter 37 Emerita Professor Kristin Shrader-Frechette (1944-)

Chapter 38 Dr Elisabeth Cardis, Dr Ausrele Kesmeniene, and Dr Keith Baverstock

Chapter 39 Professor Serhii Ploky PhD (1957-)

Chapter 40 Jonathan Michael Samet MD MS (1946-)

Selected Articles to which Samet contributed

Chapter 41 Professor Richard Clapp

Chapter 42 Professor David Richardson

Chapter 43 Other People and Groups Which Merit Recognition

Part D: Conclusions and Recommendations

Chapter 44 Conclusions

Radiation Protection and Politics

Exclusion of the Public

Absence of Ethics

The Good Role of US Historians

Nuclear policies are paramount

The Future

Chapter 45 Recommendations

How to Ameliorate the Current Impasse

What can be done? Biomarkers

How to improve the recognition of radiation risks

Part E: Scientific Appendices

Appendix A: The INWORKS Studies

Updated 2023 INWORKS Report

Numerical Risks of Radiation Exposures

Dosimetry of the INWORKS studies

Appendix B: Official Organisations on Radiation Risks

Health Physics Society

US Department of Energy

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

World Health Organisation

International Atomic Energy Agency

1959 WHO-IAEA agreement

International Commission on Radiological Protection

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Appendix C: Increased Incidences Of Cancer Near NPPs

Appendix D: Standards In the Chemical Industry

Appendix E: Absolute and Relative Risks of Radiation

Appendix F: Misuse of Statistical Significance Tests in Health Studies

Appendix G: Chornobyl ( Unreliable Official Dose And Risk Estimates

A. Doses

Cs-137 deposition concentrations following the Chornobyl accident in 1986

Uncertainties

Risks

Appendix H: Fukushima ( Unreliable Official Risk Estimates

Appendix I: Official Attempts To Force People To Return To Radioactively-Contaminated Areas after Nuclear Disasters

Appendix J: The Radium Dial Painters

Appendix K: Background Note on Radiation's Hazards and Risks

Radioactivity

Internal Radiation.

References

Appendix L: The Precautionary Principle in Radiation Protection

Consideration to alternatives

Precautionary Principle already exists in law and in policy

Appendix M: Background Radiation

Does natural background radiation cause cancers?

Appendix N: Background Radiation: Man-made radiation exposures

Do CT scans cause cancers?

Should we be concerned at these large US medical exposures?

Consumer products

Atmospheric Bomb-Testing

Part F: Technical Annexes

Annex A: Acronyms And Abbreviations

Annex B: Système Internationale (SI) nomenclature

Annex C: Glossary of Common Radiation and Radioactivity Terms

Annex D: Useful References

Annex E: Bibliography (Books)

Annex F: Historical Timeline Of Radiation Regulation 1895-1985

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781804411940

1804411949

9781804411933

1804411930

OCLC:

1428862652