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This report is divided in 3 parts: (1) the origin of the ‘linear no-threshold hypothesis’, (2) radiation-induced malign processes, (3) consequences of confusions. After the analysis of various Drosophila experiments (1935) the scientists Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Delbrück and Zimmer draw following conclusion: the radiation induced mutation rate is independent from the dose-rate and is directly proportional to the dose. However, for malign processes one cannot ask for the relationship between the total of primarily spontaneous defects and the total of natural radiation induced defects but only for the clearly smaller rates of critically defects for cancer induction. Confusions about radiation risks can be more dangerously than the real risk itself.
Lecture on the occasion of the First Intern. Conf. dedicated to the centenary of the birth of N.W. Timoféeff-Ressovsky; Dubna, 6–9 September 2000. The paper was firstly published in the Conference Proceedings “Modern problems of radiobiology, radioecology and evolution”, Dubna, JINR, 2001, 173–177.
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Abel, H., Erzgräber, G. (2016). Radiation Risks and Confusions. In: Korogodina, V., Mothersill, C., Inge-Vechtomov, S., Seymour, C. (eds) Genetics, Evolution and Radiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48838-7_16
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