It's a government conspiracy!!!!
The authors' conclusions of that report are their conclusions...not those of the U.S. DOE.
The YouTuber should have read that there are many publications by numerous authors at the DOE's website. The authors provide their conclusions based on what they find. Some of those findings support LNT, others don't. That's the whole point of the exercise. And very few of them choose to publish in the Hormesis Society's (now called the International Dose-Response Society, which isn't solely focused on radiation hormesis) journal.
If you go to the DOE's website's FAQ's, the DOE even gives an example using.....LNT!
The authors' should not have drawn the conclusions they did (regarding regulating risk). There are plenty of nonlinear effects going on at the cellular and molecular level. These complex nonlinear phenomena have feedback loops, act upon each other, etc. The LNT curve is not applicable at that scale, it is applicable at the cancer incidence versus dose (in mrem range and above) scale.
Here's an example of the complexity involved with just one gene.
The Bhatti et al study assessed radiation dose and chromosome translocations, not cancer. LNT is a description of dose versus cancer. By the way, the M.J. Ramsey contributor to the study...works for the DOE. Ooops.
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