The Risk Song

Not likely to win a Grammy:

A Science Denier Is Not A "Skeptic"

The media needs to get it right.

Shame on the deniers:

Those 2014 Lists This Time Of Year

How about the stupidest, anti-science bullshit of 2014?

Nuclear Power Issues

Non-carbon polluting, but capital intensive.

What Have Climatologists Learned...

From fighting deniers?  Pretty much the same thing others have learned in fighting deniers of other sciences, like tobacco toxicology, evolutionary biology, and....hey, wait!

No mention of health physics!

Ken Ham's Ark Encounter

5 things you should know.

What Is The 2014 Lie Of The Year?

Global warming is a hoax.

Fukushima Rx Cleared Of Nuclear Fuel

Unit 4.

The Most Radioactive Places On Earth

Why The U.S./China Deal Is Real

Dan Hirsch Attacks Diablo Canyon Safety

He's an anti-nuclear power activist, but one of the more rational ones:

Where Have All The SORRY DeNiArs Gone?

The DeNiAr group called SARI, which I refer to as SORRY, seems to have lost most of their membership based on their website listing (I'm intentionally withholding a link).  They may just be re-organizing into Members and Associate Members, I don't know.

Where have all the DeNiArs gone?  Sing along!

What Happens To Nuclear Fuel In A Meltdown?

This is what happens.

Do Something!

Helping young folks make a difference on important issues like climate change:

You Don't Believe In Evolution

You either understand it, or you don't:

 

Fukushima's Water Problem

An NHK documentary:

Nuclear Data App

Thanks to the IAEA.

I Agree With Mark Kermode

I don't even know who he is, but he has reviewed the documentary, "Merchants of Doubt" and he finds the subject enraging.  As do I:

Seawater Sampling In Fukushima

Explaining Evolution

In 2 minutes with Bill Nye:

Radioactive Waste

The journey to disposal:

Greg Koukl, What Are You Talking About?

IDiocy (Intelligent Design nonsense), that's what:

James Inhofe, What Are You Talking About?

Climate change denial, that's what:

Planning Towards The BEIR VIII Report

Click on each person's name to see their slides.

On Ted Cruz

Congrats KY!

For not giving tax incentives to a religious cult.

Postcards From Pripyat, Chernobyl

A cool video.

How Bogus Science Is Used By Climate Deniers

I can't upload the video for some reason, see here.

Unnecessary Radiation Treatments

Sometimes given after breast lumpectomies.

Controlling Radioactive Sources

From cradle to grave:

The Science Of Responding To A Nuclear Rx Accident

A free download here.

The Lima Draft On Climate Action

Looks promising.

EMF Likely Safe

That's been the consistent view.

Yale Cancer Course

It's free and on Youtube.  Here's a section on clonal expansion as an evolutionary process:

Nuclear Facilities & Applied Technologies At Sandia

Called Tech Area 5:

Institute Of Physics? Really?

Here's a review from a couple of years ago on DeNiAr Wade Allison's book.

Besides the book being mostly fiction, did you catch this?

"Only 1 nucleus in a million has changed since the formation of the earth 6,000 years ago."

The Earth formed 6,000 years ago?

Fukushima - Lessons Learned

Free U.S. National Academies of Science book.

Merchants Of Doubt - The Movie

The great book by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway is now a movie.  I haven't registered to watch it

Here's the trailer.

Solar Cell Efficiency Breakthrough

Up to 40%.

Vaccines May Make War On Cancer Personal

By stimulating the immune system.

CO2 Warming Peaks At About A Decade Post-Emission

Not much longer.

How DeNiArs Are Like Creationists

DeNiArs (health physics deniers who don't think low dose radiation can cause cancer) are like Creationists (biology deniers who don't accept species evolution) in many ways. See right hand side of this page for "Comparing the Creationist and Hormesis Cults".

What Is The Philosophy Of Science All About?

With John Wilkins:

NM Fines The DoE $54M

Over WIPP incident.

Nuclear Weapons More Dangerous Than Global Warming

One global warming researcher's opinion.

A Sane Republican Politician?

Chris Gibson may just be.

The Mind Of A Science Denier

With Donald Prothero (hey, Don...what about health physics denial?):

The IAEA Isn't In DeNiAl

They, with the ILO, are conferencing on occupational radiation issues.

Keith Baverstock - A Refreshing Voice Over DeNiAl

I posted a video of DeNiAr Wade Allison at the FCCJ yesterday. 

Here's Keith Baverstock discussing Fukushima and UNSCEAR,  

He slams Allison at about 21:00, "He's a crank":

Free Fukushima Book

Can be downloaded here.  Unfortunately, the chapter of radiation health effects includes this:

"Some researchers subscribe to the once discredited hormesis concept, a hypothesis that receiving low ionizing radiation in doses just above the natural background level may induce beneficial biological responses. The proponents of this hypothesis explain that a number of compensatory and reparatory mechanisms (e.g., stimulation of the immune response and DNA repair, and activation of apoptosis that eliminates damaged cells that would otherwise become cancerous) are stimulated in response to small doses of ionizing radiation."

It's still discredited....whether some researchers subscribe to the concept or not.

Americans And Their Creationism

God's work?

Busby Fukushima Fearmongering Debunked

Wade Allison Fools Journalists

The problem with journalists, is that they feel compelled to get both sides of a story.  

See this video at about 1:30.  

That's not how science works.  We have scientific consensus bodies which draw conclusions based on the evidence.

Wade Allison can't accept those conclusions, so he makes up his own "science".

Let's Talk Science Denial

With Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye:

Jesus Must Be Smiling

The Vatican has more money than they thought.  Nice problem.

Uranium Drive In

Is a documentary concerning a small town's battle for or against opening a uranium mill.

It's airing right now on the PIVOT channel.

Believe In God In 5 Minutes!

Gerald Schroeder, PhD in physics, former AEC employee is a moron trying to fool others that the laws of nature (those associated with our Universe) existed before the Universe (no evidence of that at all).  Therefore, (pre-determined conclusion) Gawd:

A Book Blamed For A Suicide

Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion".

Maybe not lying to kids about religion, would prevent this sort of thing.

60 Minutes Visits Chernobyl

Tonight after the football game on CBS.

U.S. Fails To Properly Monitor Fukushima Fallout?

It's not a safety issue (though the Russian Times seems to want it to be fearful), just a data collection issue, if one is interested in that sort of thing.

An IDiot's Flawed (But Repeated Ad Nauseum) Design Argument

That's why they (Intelligent Design proponents, evolution deniers) are called IDiots:

There's No Such Thing As Faith Healing

It's just science denial.

Loss Of Land Ice = More Sea Level Rise

Not sea ice.

Huge CA Solar Plant Lags In Energy Production

Due to lack of sunshine.

U.S. NRC Rules Ill Suited For Decommissionings

According to the head of the NRC, Dr. Allison MacFarlane.

Greenpeace Keeping Busy Around Fukushima

Monitoring radioactivity, fighting nuclear power, yawn.

How Much Of Your DNA Is Functional?

Depends on one's definition of "functional", but about 8%.

Global Warming - Like A Blanket & A Tanning Oil

Longer wave radiation emitted by the Earth is trapped like a blanket.

But eventually, shorter wave radiation emitted by the Sun is also trapped.

Science Denial Charts Are Insufficient

Chris Mooney has a post in which he charts the influence of politics and religion on science denial.

At the end, he concludes that our sense of personal identity is the major influence.

What An IDiot!

Dr. John Lennox, an Intelligent Design proponent (IDiot), can't comprehend chemical evolution:

Annapolis Landmarks At Risk

From flooding caused by global warming:

Get Acclimatized!

Australians Mock Government

On ignoring climate change by putting their heads in the sand!

No, Stephen Meyer Isn't An Amazing Scientist

He's an IDiot (Intelligent Design cultist) at a scientific laboratory church.

South Florida - You Have A Problem

Anthropogenic climate change:

Fukushima's Contaminated Water

Lots of it!  (Nice photo gallery within link - why is it necessary to point out that people wearing protective gear are wearing protective gear?!?  HA!)

The "I'm Not A Scientist" Cop-out

Employed by....you guessed it...Redumblicans.

U.S. & China Climate Accord

Agree to reduce emissions considerably.

Redumblicans remain in denial.

Dr. Dino Facing New Legal Woes

Creationist Kent Hovind.

You're a fucktard, aren't you Kent?

Cigars Are Carcinogenic Too

Not surprising since tobacco is tobacco.

It also wouldn't be surprising if cigar afficionados  started a science denial campaign.

Oklahoma - You Have A Problem

Actually, all Americans do thanks to the election of a U.S. Senator from OK who will use a "biblical worldview" to defeat the national debt.  

He's a Redumblican, of course!

Nuclear Engineers Murdered

Five of them, near Damascus.

The PRISM Rx

Liquid sodium cooled.

First Solar Bicycle Path

In the Netherlands.

The Psychology Of A Nuclear Blast

And Operation Plumbbob.

Oh, The Irony!

This is several weeks old, but worth the wait.

Creationist (with a major in biology), climate change denier and LA Govenor Bobby Jindal (Redumblican, of course!) calls the Obama administration "science deniers".

He's praying about whether he'll run for President in 2016.

Behe = IDiot

Because an Intelligent Designer loves bacterial flagellum.  Where did the rest of the bacteria come from?

S. Carolina - You Have A Problem

An IDiot (Intelligent Design proponent) state senator.  Redumblican, of course.

Oh Shit

Climate change denier Senator James Inhofe (R - of course!) to preside over environmental panel.

The LNT:MDA Analogy

When a laboratory analyzes a sample for radioactivity, it has to compare the instrument's sample results with the instrument's background results.

A one time measurement of the radiation background may or may not represent the true background, there is variability.  Same with the sample.

If you've ever read the results from a laboratory, when the sample and background counts are the same, what do they record as the sample's radioactivity?

Hint:  It's not zero!

Fukushima Fuel Rods Removed

From Rx #4 Building.

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash

Have you heard about the crash?

What if the company's CEO, Sir Richard Branson, had appeared on T.V. and said something like:

"This is a tragedy.  Please join me in signing a letter denouncing the science of physics, particularly the horrible theory of general relativity (our theory of gravity).  We mustn't let this happen again.  A pilot was killed and another injured.  The costs have been in the millions.  Please denounce general relativity."

Climate Of Ignorance

With right-wing nut and Weather Channel founder, John Coleman (& The Young Turks):

F Reactor Inspection

At Hanford:

DeNiArs Should Watch This Chernobyl Video

Ian Goddard does a wonderful job of explaining a commonly used tactic of DeNiArs (those who deny the scientific theory of LNT, analogous to evolutionary biology deniers or anthropogenic climate change deniers).  They typically indulge in the fallacy of cherry picking radiation studies at low doses and with low statistical power and then erroneously conclude that LNT is wrong and part of an anti-nuclear power conspiracy!

Bill Nye Fighting For The Young Creationist Mind

It can be a tough nut to crack.

Jesus...The "Science Isn't Incompatible With Faith" Delusion Again

In the Atlantic dealing with the Pope's views on evolution.

The author completely ignores a fundamental Catholic myth.

That Jesus had to die in order to get forgiveness for Original Sin (Adam & Eve stuff).

If Adam & Eve didn't exist (they didn't) and Original Sin never happened (it didn't), then Catholicism blows up.  The whole Jesus myth becomes even more nonsensical.

Someone should tell the author that the reason the Pontifical Academy of Sciences exists is because faith is incompatible with science.   They need THEIR version of science, instead of an objective version of science.

And what about that wafer turning into the flesh of Jesus after one eats it?  Is that science?

Zombie worship isn't science.

Politicians Say The Most Unscientific Things!

Here's a sampling.

Happy Election Day...please vote (it should be obvious which political party's leadership is the most unscientific).

The Electric Vehicle Revolution

Have some fun!

Radiation A Risk Factor For Brain Tumors

In young people.

Shocking!  HA!

IDiot's Secret Weapon

Intelligent Design ministers (IDiots) have a secret weapon.

I didn't realize human stupidity was a secret.  They aren't doing very well keeping it secret.

How about some music?

Science Denial & Religious LGBT Phobia

"There are numerous reasons why science denial is dangerous."

Thank You Jon Stewart

For having the integrity to mock your newest advertiser, who also fund science denial organizations, Koch Industries.  If you ever had any doubts about anthropogenic climate change, Koch Industries was involved in paying people to appear on T.V., on the Internet, etc. in order to confuse you.

Understanding Cancer

Using statistics, physics and genetics.

Climate Change - Time Is Not On Our Side

According to the IPCC.

Solar Power - The Black Hole Of Sunlight

New, efficient nanomaterial.

DeNiAl Again At Atomic Ideologies

Blaming the theory of LNT on poor Fukushima emergency planning is like creationists blaming the theory of evolution on Hitler's holocaust.  I tried to comment there, but I have been religiously excommunicated!

The International Atomic Energy Agency didn't blame science on the failings of Fukushima, they blamed a lack of preparedness and training.

UPDATE:  The IAEA link appears to be broken.  Here is a similar report from the pro-nuclear power Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).  See the bottom of page 4 (using the page numbering of the document, not Adobe).  They didn't blame science.  Obviously.

Fukushima's Radioactive Contamination

Three years on.

GA History Professor Promotes Creationism

I think his knowledge of history must suck.

Why Republicans Keep Telling Everyone They're Not Scientists

Because they are dishonest.

Do Americans Appreciate Climate Change Risks?

No, they're too busy reality television shows.

UT Caverns Solve Energy Storage Problem

For wind turbines.

If ISIS Is Not Islamic, Then The Inquisition Was Not Catholic

Biologist Jerry Coyne stating the obvious.

The Difference Between CME's & Flares

Is explained in the embedded video.

Polar Bears Changing Menu

Thanks to global warming.  Or, what else don't we know about climate change?

Comedians Spank GOP Science Deniers

Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel.

Nuclear Battery

Based on Sr-90.

Antimatter Explained

In this short video.

Center For The Manufacturing Of Anti-Science Propaganda

Brought to you by the Cato Institute, which was brought to you by one of the Koch Brothers.

The Scary Element That Saved The Apollo 13 Crew

Pu.

"Climate Science Is Not Settled"

Says BP non-climatologist in the peer-reviewed, scholarly scientific publication, the Wall St. Journal.

Climate Change Deniers Are Frauds

As this chart will show.

But, then, so are biology (evolution) and health physics (LNT) deniers.

Climate Change You Can Believe In

Good op-ed.

GE-Hitachi Rx Design Approved

By the U.S. NRC.

Global Heat Records Set

Again.

Increased Cancer Risk To Those Living Near Trinity Test Site?

A study will determine if so or not.

Autism Caused By Mutations

In brain development gene.

Watch the anti-vaxxers heads spin!

A New Science Denial Cult

The Open Atmospheric Society.

March On!

For climate change action in NYC.

Stericycle Politics

In Utah.

Gov. Bobby Jindal - Science Denier

Aka moron.

Acceptance Of Evolution By Prospective Teachers

Not as good as it should be.

Another WIPP Drum Identified

Which might have the characteristics for being leakable.

How To Cleanup The Global Economy

To fight climate change.

Nuclear Power Plant Amusement Park

In Germany.

5 Radiation Oncology Treatments

To question.

Soldiers Serving Abroad In Sunny Areas

Have a higher risk of skin cancer.

Our Decarbonization Rate

Sucks.

Japanese Newspaper Apologizes

For false Fukushima reporting.

Study Links Genetic Mutation & Melanoma Progression

BRAFV600E.

Fukushima International Symposium

Provides recommendations to the Japanese government.

The Power Of Optics

Or visible radiation:

Sendai Rx's Approved For Restart

Local government approval still required.

Reentering Atomic Man's Room

At Hanford (see video embedded within link).

Former U.S. Army Nuclear Ship To Be Decommissioned

Note to reporter -  it's Clive, Utah not Clyde, Utah.

DoE Likes H-3 Production By TVA

Though leakage rates have been higher than anticipated.

CO2 Levels Are Crazy High

And Redumblicans are just crazy.

Rio Tinto Promotes Clean Coal

If only there were such a thing.

There's Co-57 In My Landfill!

In New York.

Using CO2 As A Refrigerant

It has less global warming potential than hydroflourocarbons.

Yale Fund Takes Aim At Climate Change

Do you know what's in your wallet?

Meanwhile, everyone else is failing.

Home Wanted For Australian Radwaste

Risk versus reward.

Key Gene Drives Skin Cell Mutations

KNSTRN.

Airman Can't Reenlist Thanks To "God"

He wouldn't say "so help me God", so he couldn't re-enlist.  The Air Force can't change their rules without an act of Congress.

Is Diablo Canyon Ready For The "Big One"?

An earthquake, that is.

Cosmic Rays Sound Scary,,,

But the radiation risk on a flight is small.

Callaway To Increase Monitoring Well Frequency

Due to evidence of contaminants.

New Melanoma Drug Approved

"Game changing".

EnergySolutions Wants Them Some DU

But the going is slow.

The WA Times Is A Hoax

With this editorial.

N-Rays

And the guy who "discovered" them.

No Fukushima Contamination On U.S. W. Coast

Shocking!  Must be a conspiracy!

Mousseau On Fukushima

I think he's sincere, but in speaking out, he's not allowing the legally elected consensus body to draw its conclusions.  He should be making his arguments in the scientific literature, not to the public.  It's all about him and his papers, which is the fallacy of cherry picking. Around 48:00, one person asks about DeNiAr Wade Allison's hormesis, which Mousseau discounts:

Hot German Wild Boar

Hot from Chernobyl contamination.

Hanford's Continuing Progress

At tank cleaning.

Testing Groundwater For Signs Of DoE Pollution

Around Oak Ridge.

Fukushima Workers Sue TEPCO

For danger pay.

Fukushima Resentment

Social issues.

Do High Voltage Lines Cause Cancer?

No.

Naomi Oreskes Interview

From last month.

Happy Anniversary!

Van Allen probes!

Don Prothero Again

I had a post yesterday of him in a video, and today you have the written version.

Does "Nothing" Exist?

There seems to be an absence of evidence for it!

Libertarian Ideology Is Anti-Science

Which  is why the manufacturing of much of the anti-science propaganda originates with Libertarian stink think tanks.

Hitachi's Next Generation Rx's

Are described here.

The Mind Of A Science Denier

With geologist Donald Prothero (health physics not mentioned! Pooh.).  Science deniers have minds???:

Formaldehyde Confirmed As A Human Carcinogen

Which will be followed by formaldehyde deniers.

Victor Stenger Has Died

Physicist and outspoken atheist.

HLW Allowed To Be Stored Indefinitely

The industry will be happy, the anti-nukes not so much.

Fukushima - UNSCEAR vs Mousseau

I don't think this article will help the average person understand science.

It is basically describing the difference between primary research (Mousseau) and meta-analysis (UNSCEAR), which is combing through primary research in order to reach conclusions.  Meta-analysis always lags what primary research shows, but isolated bits of primary research could lead one to erroneous conclusions (which is why we do meta-analysis).

Here's a related Fukushima piece.

What Exactly Does The Sun Do To Your Skin?

It damages it.

Invadopodia

Is how cancer cells find their way into new tissues.

(I couldn't get the embedded video to play)

Oooppss!

Equipment falls into Fukushima spent fuel pool.

I hate when that happens.

This Is What A DeNiAr Looks Like

A Canadian one.

Listen to him too....you can't make up this level of irony!

NRC Lifts GA Probation

I didn't know that their regulatory program had been put into probation (the first time the NRC has done so!).  Apparently they've made some improvements.

Epigenetic Changes Are Key To Cancer Development

Methyl groups turn genes on or off.

Cell Phone Usage Increases Cancer Risk (Possibly)

More research needed.

"Name & Shame" Greenhouse Gas Emitters

A political strategy required due to Redumblican science denial.

Using Nanotechnology Against Cancer

Meet nanoporphyrin.

Nanoparticles are also being used to clean drinking water.

I Didn't See That One Coming!

Just kidding....MI legislation introduced to stop radwaste importation and disposal.

Global Warming Update

Awww pooh.

ANS Nuclear Cafe Allows More Propaganda

It's a blog (intentionally no link) of the American Nuclear Society (I quit because they have no discipline) and it's Rod Adams again with the Ed Calabrese fabrication that H.J. Muller lied about LNT.

It is the DeNiArs verion of the IDiot's (Intelligent Design proponents) Haeckel's embryos.

The Anti-Nukes Are Drooling!

Over this confidential report on Diablo Canyon plant safety.

Scientist Pleads Guilty

To taking government-owned computer to China.

Can Tiny Nuclear Plants Thwart Regulatory Hell?

An op-ed by a nuclear engineering graduate student.

Scientific Realism

With biologist John Wilkins:

The End Of Tanning?

I doubt it, but tan responsibly.

The computer generated image of the female face, reminds me of this earlier post's image.

When Faith & Facts Collide

Facts will ultimately win.

How Science Deniers Delude Themselves

False equivalence.

Science is the process of NOT fooling oneself....whatever one thinks one knows, one submits for peer review.

Scientific consensus bodies review the peer-reviewed literature and draw conclusions which are also open for peer review and comment.  They then make those conclusions public.

Any other process isn't as good as the scientific method.

The Madingley Model

A global ecosystem model.

Dear Climate Change Deniers

Scientists have feelings too.

Don't Waste Money On CAM Trials

Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) is pseudo-science and let's call it what it is.

And don't waste money on it!

Fukushima On 60 Minutes

The news magazine will have piece on Fukushima at 6:00 p.m. CST.

We've Got Gas

Methane plumes along U.S. east coast.

Speaking Of Dumb Lawsuits.....

Jeebsus.

WIPP Gets Spanked - Again

They didn't perform some required air sampling.

Here's some background.

They Should Have Consulted A Health Physicist

Residents file a lawsuit claiming radioactive contamination from a St. Louis area landfill.

Case dismissed.

Who Are The Koch Brothers?

They fund the Cato Institute & Heritage Foundation.

They are also billionaire fossil fuel executives.

Is it any surprise that Cato & Heritage manufacture climate denial propaganda?

Radtown!

The U.S. EPA has updated their radiation learning program called Radtown.

Teach the kids!

What Is Nothing?

Give it some thought.

Science Deniers - You Can't Ignore Facts Forever

It's Bill Nye, the Science Guy, addressing climate change denial and denial of a few other scientific areas (but he doesn't mention health physics!):

 

Fighting Science Denial On T.V.

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

OH - You Have A Problem

An anti-science education bill, sponsored by a Redumblican (of course!).

Greenland Is Greening

Due to ice loss.

C-Span Does The U.S. A Disservice

They are covering a portion of the Heartburn Imbecile's pseudo-scientific global warming conference, at 8 p.m. EST tonight.  They're referring to it as "Climate Change Skeptics", when "Climate Change Deniers" would be more accurate.

Has The Earth's Missing Heat Been Found?

Possibly.

Global warming is also making meteorology more difficult.

To James Hollow And His Audience

(This is in response to a Youtube video comment section)

James:

I hope what you are about to read will anger you, because you have been intentionally misled.  You have been used by Allison as an accomplice to spread his misinformation around.  If you have a pro-nuclear power bias, you are particularly susceptible to this mis-information due to what is called "confirmation bias" and "motivated reasoning".

Let's get into some detailed facts:

There are two international scientific consensus bodies on radiation health effects.  They are the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).

Both of these consensus bodies have concluded that LNT is the best explanation of radiation health effects. You can find this in ICRP Report 103 (which you have to buy) and in UNSCEAR 2010 (which you can read online).

In the U.S., we also have the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' BEIR VII (I've already provided a link) and the National Commission on Radiological Protection & Measurement (NCRP).  The NCRP Report 136 (which you have to buy) details their conclusions.

All four consensus bodies are in agreement, that LNT is the best theory of radiation carcinogenesis.  And that is one of the remarkable facts about science....we can't have consensus bodies in disagreement!  Any areas of disagreement are worked out!  And more broadly, we can't have a theory in biology contradict a theory in physics....or a theory in health physics contradict a theory in cosmology!

Science works well because of the filtering methodology of peer reviewed publication, meta-analysis, and scientific consensus bodies.  The vast majority of scientists appreciate and respect this process.  The vast majority of scientists are careful to stick to their own area of expertise and to educate the general public on what the scientific consensus is within their own area of expertise.

Sadly, there is a small minority of people with science degrees (I don't refer to them as scientists because they have abandoned the scientific method) who don't like the conclusions of scientific consensus bodies, and manufacture propaganda to confuse the general public.  One of those people is Wade Allison.

Note in your video (just before 3:00) he states he came to his own conclusions.  That should be a warning bell to everyone!  No one should care what his own conclusions are.  You should only care what the conclusions are of an appropriate scientific consensus body.  Note that prior to making that statement he describes his credentials...he is inducing his audience to fall for the fallacy of argument from authority.

From there he proceeds to misinform (we can get into technical details, but I'm avoiding doing that for the moment).

ASIDE -  At 1:58 in this video, Allison says he's not an expert. If he's not an expert, shouldn't he be paying attention to the experts?  I'm reminded of the creationist dentist who doesn't like the scientific consensus of evolution within biology. (Someone has to stand up to the experts! HA!)

So, to be crystal clear, the scientific consensus has been and continues to be LNT and Allison is intentionally misinforming the public. The reason you think LNT is based on the precautionary principle is because you have been led to believe it.  It is possible that LNT overestimates the risk of radiation, but it is also possible LNT underestimates the risk of radiation.  As of today, the evidence suggests that LNT is the best model.

 Allison is engaged in the same behavior that evolution deniers, climate change deniers, tobacco deniers, etc. engage in.  It is narcissistic, intellectually cowardly and unethical.  If a medical doctor decided to pray to cure a disease rather than provide the consensus medicine, that doctor would be banned from practice.  If an attorney, advised his client to ignore a court ruling because he didn't agree with it, he would be banned from practice.  Sadly, we don't have a similar mechanism within the physical sciences.

Now Allison is not the only unethical science person.  You have given us another one, Jane Orient.  She is the President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.  As you can see if you read that webpage, they engage not only in LNT denial, but also in climate change denial.  They are a bunch of Libertarian (don't like government regulations) medical doctors who are associated with the Libertarian Marshall Institute (mostly physical scientists).  The Marshall Institute was the subject of the book, "Merchants of Doubt".

These organizations take donations from corporations and other Libertarians, and pay people with credentials to manufacture arguments against the scientific consensus.  They do this to delay, minimize, or overturn regulations which may be a consequence of the scientific conclusions.  Very unethical.

So, if you look at the references in her paper, you find the same cherry-picked group of people who have attacked health physics over the decades.  One example is T.D. Luckey.  Here is a paper by him, in which he promotes hormesis (that radiation is good for you) by comparing it with the pseudo-science of homeopathy!  That's like comparing it to astrology in order to promote it!

Here is Luckey at a 2000, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting giving a talk called "How Health Physics Lost the 20th Century".  Well, health physics didn't lose the 20th century nor the 21st.  However, Luckey passed away this year.

Creationists repeat the same, tired old arguments attacking evolutionary biology.  They'll claim evolution is just a hypothesis, it's an atheistic conspiracy, it's about to be overturned, etc.

You will find the same dozen or so people using their credentials to attack health physics (I call them DeNiArs).  You will also find a different group, consisting of another dozen or so people with credentials, exaggerating radiation risks.  Both groups are engaged in unethical conduct.

Stick with the scientific consensus bodies' conclusions on any issue....don't seek out individuals with science degrees who are telling you what you want to hear.

Otherwise they'll play you like a fiddle.

I hope you are very angry.