Science

Relative Becquerels or relative risks?

I was struck by some of the numbers in the recent Guardian article on plans to lift radioactive contamination controls on UK sheep farms

Chernobyl - 26 April 1986

Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, pa

The ladder of relative risk?

As a side report in today's report about the tangible effects of loneliness on heaalth:

Life and style

Response: Don't let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun | Comment is free | The Guardian

Interestingly different view on UV exposure and melanoma's in The Guardian's Comment is Free - stirred up plenty of response too!

Comment is free

Don't let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun

  • guardian.co.uk, Wednesday July 21 2010
  • Sam Shuster

Kira Cochrane asks "why can't we give up the tan?" (Going for the burn, G2, 7 July). The answer is simple: we are not convinced that the alleged harm outweighs the obvious benefits, and we dislike the bullying, fear-mongering campaign against sun exposure. Skin cancer statistics are used to scare, not educate.

 


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