Here's an article about a judge who wouldn't allow a radiation health expert's testimony in a lawsuit from Apollo, PA. The suit alleges increased cancer and other illnesses from a nuclear fuel plant.
The article states:
"Judge Mitchell wrote: “At the hearing, Dr. Melius (called by Defendants as a hostile witness) testified that, although all Americans are exposed to hundreds of millirems of ionizing radiation every day, adding up to thousands of millirems over the years, he believes Plaintiffs received ‘substantially' more than background radiation, yet he could not quantify this amount.""
If the reporter and the judge are accurate, then Dr. Melius isn't.
All Americans are NOT exposed to hundreds of millirems everyday!
> If the reporter and the judge are accurate
ReplyDeleteThere's an "if".
Court transcript?
The "hundreds of millirems" is of course per year, but yes, Americans (like the rest of us) are exposed to ionizing radiation "every day". And over the years, that makes thousands of millirems. So it takes only a small misspeaking -- or mishearing -- to change a sensible statement to a nonsensical one.