Presented by
Edward J. Calabrese, Professor of Toxicology at the
University of Massachusetts,
School of Public Health and Health
Sciences, Amherst.
April 13, 2024, 1:30-3:00pm
On YouTube, (https://youtube.com/live/3R8YuZXUklI?feature=share)
The historical foundations of cancer risk assessment were based
on fundamental scientific errors that were never corrected, all
within the framework of an extraordinary appeal to the authority
of the radiation genetics community, led by Hermann J Muller. Even
though these individuals were greatly talented and accomplished,
they were driven by ideological and self-serving professional
biases that would lead to both falsification of the research
record and suppression of key scientific findings, all in an
effort to establish the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for
hereditary and cancer risk assessment, replacing the threshold
dose response model. This troubling history has now been revealed
in a long series of peer reviewed publications by the author and
summarized in a 22-episode documentary by the Health Physics
Society* (https://hps.org/hpspublications/historylnt/episodeguide.html).
This troubling history remained hidden from the regulatory
agencies around the globe since their inception. These groups
simply and uncritically accepted a flawed and corrupt history,
assuming that it was accurate and reliable. Yet, this path of
historical ignorance led the US EPA, and other national regulatory
agencies, to accept a dishonest foundation upon which to base and
frame cancer risk assessment, terribly failing in their public
service mission. This untenable situation has placed a continuing
stranglehold on the actions of all regulatory agencies worldwide,
improperly guiding its philosophies, policies and practices down
to the present time.
(*Note that the views expressed in these videos do not
necessarily represent official positions of the Health Physics
Society.)
Edward J. Calabrese is a Professor of Toxicology at the
University of Massachusetts, School of Public Health and Health
Sciences, Amherst. Dr. Calabrese has researched extensively in the
area of host factors affecting susceptibility to pollutants, and
is the author of over 1,000 papers in scholarly journals, as well
as more than 10 books. Dr. Calabrese was awarded the 2009 Marie
Curie Prize from the World Council of Nuclear Workers for his body
of work on hormesis. He was the recipient of the International CCN
Society's Springer award for 2010. He was awarded an Honorary
Doctor of Science Degree from McMaster University in 2013. In 2014
he was awarded the Petr Beckmann Award from Doctors for Disaster
Preparedness. Dr. Calabrese was awarded the G. William Morgan
Lectureship Award and the Robert S. Landauer, Sr., Lectureship
Award in 2022 from the Health Physics Society.
