Calabrese says mistake led to adopting the LNT model in toxicology

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Edward Calabrese, the University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist who has long been a critic of the current linear no-threshold (LNT) approach to risk assessment for radiation and toxic chemicals, argues in a new publication that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) made an error in adopting the LNT because the research findings on which they relied contained a fundamental error, unknown to them and only discovered decades later.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2jJ3cje