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The Rubber Duckies: Rejecting the good news
The Rubber Duckie for bias and missing the point of one’s own research goes to the massive Interphone cellphone study. Released earlier this year, it dismissed its own work because it failed to prove...
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Lawrence Solomon: Radiation’s benefits
Will a gamma ray a day keep the doctor away? A new book says low-level radiation may prevent cancer By Lawrence Solomon ‘There is no safe level of radiation.” For the last 30 years, my colleagues and I...
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Lawrence Solomon: The scan that cures
CT scans may not just detect cancer, they may actually prevent it ‘This is the first time that we have seen clear evidence of a significant reduction in lung cancer mortality with a screening test,”...
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Lawrence Solomon: Port Hope — a hot spot that may be cool
Nuclear workers in Port Hope contract fewer cancers Thirty-five years ago, Canada’s first radioactive cleanup of a contaminated town was ordered for Port Hope, Ont., after my organization, Energy...
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Lawrence Solomon: The apples and oranges of radiation
We may need to scrap the current regulatory regime Prior to the Second World War, radiation was considered safe, even healthy, in small doses. After the war, and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
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Lawrence Solomon: Saving life and limb
A decades-old treatment using X-rays may be more successful against gangrene than modern techniques It was too late to amputate – the fast-moving gaseous gangrene, which started with a knee wound after...
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Lawrence Solomon: Peering into the past for cures
X-rays don’t just diagnose, they cure, says peer-reviewed research from the 1940s. Before Christmas, I reviewed a 70-year-old medical text that described near-miraculous results from treating...
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Lawrence Solomon: One health activist attacks another (through me)
“Port Hope is the deep dark underbelly of the Canadian nuclear industry, representing dangers that so far, have escaped sufficient scrutiny and cleanup. … no level of radiation is safe and it is...
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Lawrence Solomon: Plutonium for Pluto
Plutonium, one of the most feared radioactive substances on earth, may in fact enhance human health, according to unexpected new findings published in the journal, Health Physics. The new findings...
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Lawrence Solomon: Death of a maverick
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, winner of a 1977 Nobel prize in medicine and a lifelong fighter against personal and professional prejudice in science, died last week at age 89. Some of her fights were...
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Lawrence Solomon: Just a (nuclear) waste
OPGThe pool at Bruce nuclear station in Ontario where thousands of bundles of used fuel are stored under water. Why spend billions to store used fuel that won’t kill anyone? Canada’s nuclear industry...
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Lawrence Solomon: Canada’s bad radiation cancer data
Radiation exposure may have been underreported in the 1950s and ’60s, making it appear more deadly Low levels of radiation measurably increase deaths from cancer. Or so concluded a 15-country study...
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Lawrence Solomon: The fallout of the Nobel scam of 1946
Scientist’s radiation cover-up might have cost thousands of lives Why do most people today, scientists included, believe that small doses of radiation are harmful to human health when no proof for this...
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Lawrence Solomon: Evacuation a worse killer than radiation
ReutersFukushima evacuees sleep at an evacuation centre in a gymnasium in Kawamata, Japan, on March 14, 2011, Thousands of Fukushima evacuees may be killed by severe stress If a terrorist in New York...
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