The Overestimation of Medical Consequences of Low-Dose Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, 2nd Edition

Sergei V. Jargin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2023 | 2nd New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5100-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyzes bias and conflicts of interest in numerous papers exaggerating the medical and biological consequences of low-dose radiation. After the Chernobyl accident, many publications overestimated its medical consequences. Among the motives for doing so were financing, international help, publication pressure, and the pressure to write numerous theses and articles throughout one’s scientific career. The accident has been exploited to strangle nuclear energy, thus boosting fossil fuel prices. Nuclear facilities are potential targets in armed conflicts. One of the motives to unleash the war in Ukraine and threats to use nuclear weapons seems to be boosting fossil fuel prices. In more developed countries, antinuclear resentments have been supported by Green activists, well in agreement with the interests of fossil fuel vendors, several companies and certain governments. Today, there are no alternatives to nuclear energy. This book argues that, in the long run, non-renewable fossil fuels will become more expensive, contributing to excessive population growth in oil-producing regions and poverty elsewhere.

Autor

Sergei V. Jargin began his medical education in 1973 and graduated from Sechenov Medical Academy in Moscow in 1983. He received postgraduate training in pathology at the same institution until 1986. Thereafter, he was a pathologist and lecturer at the Sechenov Medical Academy (recently renamed university). Since 1995, he has been a lecturer at the Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow. His scientific interests include social, medical, and pathological aspects of nuclear accidents and environmental contaminations. He is author of the book Overestimation of Chernobyl consequences: cui bono? (2013), and has published articles in such journals as Human & Experimental Toxicology, Dose Response, Health Physics, and Radiation and Environmental Biophysics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2023
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-5100-8 / 1527551008
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-5100-8 / 9781527551008
• Zustand: Neuware