The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception
by Bertrand R. Jordan
Christopher Busby
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1627–1629, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195339
In his recent article Jordan (2016) addresses the public’s “unreasonable” fears of radiation. He claims that the lifespan study (LSS) of Japanese A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has given definitive information on the relation between exposure and genetic damage, expressed as cancer and heritable effects in offspring of those exposed. He presents the LSS as the gold standard in radiation epidemiology, and he is not alone in this (Kamiya et al. 2015). The LSS results are the basis of legal limits for exposure and are employed to dismiss evidence showing that health effects from Chernobyl (Yablokov&n...










