Rethinking a tenet of cancer risk assessment for low radiation doses

The Health Physics Society, which is dedicated to radiation safety, produced a documentary that exposes a history of scientific errors, profound bias, professional self-interest, and scientific misconduct that established the fundamental tenet of cancer risk assessment for low doses of radiation where most people live and work. Leadership within the Health Physics Society (HPS) are challenging such a keystone in cancer risk assessment, and have discovered scientific errors, profound bias, professional self-interest, and scientific misconduct at the highest levels that challenges the existing radiation protection philosophy in lowdose environments. There's more: the focus of Muller's research - fruit flies - may share many fundamental genetic and biological characteristics with other organisms, but they're certainly not humans. [...]the American human-population geneticist, James V Neel, published research showing no significant increase in birth defects or other genetic damage in the offspring of Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, effectively challenging Muller's risk assessment interpretations. Muller, nonetheless, used his influence to prevent Neel's study from being reviewed by the 1956 US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) genetics panel that was charged to assess potential human health effects from radiation exposures, especially at low doses.