Cancer risk assessment foundation unraveling: New historical evidence reveals that the US National Academy of Sciences (US NAS), Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) Committee Genetics Panel falsified the research record to promote acceptance of the LNT

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 649-650

  Calabrese, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Linear no threshold (LNT); Mutation; Risk assessment; Threshold dose response

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LETTER; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; GENETICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGANIZATION; PROCEDURES; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LINEAR MODELS; NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (U.S.); NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925539889     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-015-1455-3     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Calabrese EJ (2013) Origin of the linearity no threshold (LNT) dose–response concept. Arch Toxicol 87:1621–1633