The BEIR VII Estimates of Low-Dose Radiation Health Risks Are Based on Faulty Assumptions and Data Analyses: A Call for Reassessment

• DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.117.206219
• Publication Date: 2018-02-23T13:20:53Z
• Authors: Jeffry A. Siegel; Bennett S. Greenspan; Alan H. Maurer; Andrew T. Taylor; William T. Phillips; Douglas Van Nostrand; Bill Sacks; Edward B. Silbers...
• Keywords: Data Analysis; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Health; Humans; Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Radiation Injuries; Risk Assessment; 3. Good health

The 2006 National Academy of Sciences Biologic Effects Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VII report is a well-recognized and frequently cited source on the legitimacy linear no-threshold (LNT) model-a model entailing causal relationship between ionizing radiation human cancer risk. Linearity means that all causes explicitly excludes threshold below which radiogenic risk disappears. However, BEIR committee has erred in interpretation its selected literature; specifically, vitro data quoted fail to support LNT. Moreover, cannot be considered as definitive proof development intact organisms. This review presented stimulate critical reevaluation by VIII reassess validity, use, LNT derived policies.