Researcher points to suppression of evidence on radiation effects by 1946 Nobel Laureate
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has uncovered evidence that one of the fathers of radiation genetics, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Muller, knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure.