“But even the smallest amounts of man-made radioactivity can cause genetic damage leading to cancer, leukaemia, still birth, birth defects and other health problems which may only become apparent in future generations.”
Then why doesn’t natural radiation cause cancer? Humans don’t have any magic powers to make new kinds of radiation; animals (and more recently humans) have been exposed to much higher radiation levels since the beginning of life on Earth. All of a sudden, it causes cancer? The industrial revolution comes along, people start smoking, life expectancy increases dramatically, and cancer rates concurrently skyrocket with no changes in radiation levels (if anything, a decrease)–and radiation is at fault?
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Posted on September 27, 2005 by Stewart Peterson |
