No safe level of radiation exposure? Researcher points to suppression of evidence on radiation effects by Nobel Laureate

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

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.

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