“With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.”
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From an evolutionary standpoint, radiological hormesis makes perfect sense. Life evolved on this planet being constantly exposed to all manner of low-level background radiation. It’s even in the bananas eaten by both our ancestors and ourselves! It stands to reason that those evolutionary adaptations which caused individuals to BENEFIT from low-level background radiation would be more likely to survive the process of natural selection.
Let me break this down for the hopelessly ignorant hippie-dippie nature worshipping crowd -- low level radiation is a GIFT from Gaia!
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