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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Where Dumb Meets Dumber

I can't embed this video.  Nor can I comment on it, because Goddard banned me after pointing out flaws in his other videos.  I learned about this video from the chap in the video in my last point.

Goddard's tries to promote that a new study suggests that there may be a super-linear dose response at low doses.  From the study itself:







"Importantly, for solid cancers the additive radiation risk (i.e., excess cancer cases per 10^4

person-years per Gy) continues to increase throughout life with a linear dose–response relationship"


What Goddard fails to mention (though it's obvious) is the large errors associated with the low dose range.  He then pulls a switcheroo.  Remember this video is about this new study.  But at about 6:15 until the end, he introduces older studies!  Most of the video actually discusses the older studies.

But in the end, he basically drops the super-linear model he first proposed, for LNT. 

Why didn't he just discuss LNT and the new study?

Anyway, I'm sure this study will be ignored by the pro-nukes and bantered about by the anti-nukes, just like the opposite is being done with the recent mouse DNA study.

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