A friend sent me a link to an important paper titled EVIDENCE SUPPORTING RADIATION HORMESIS IN ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR CANCER MORTALITY DATA. Here is a quote from the paper abstract:
Calculations show that a correction for such a bias can lower the ERRs in the atomic bomb survivor data to negative values for intermediate doses. This is consistent with the phenomenon of radiation hormesis, providing a rational explanation for the decreased risk of cancer observed at intermediate doses for which there is no explanation based on the LNT model. The recent atomic bomb survivor data provides additional evidence for radiation hormesis in humans.
Now I will stand by to see what Bob Applebaum has to say after he has read the paper. It is probably too much to expect that he would grudgingly acknowledge that a systematic statistical analysis error has cost human society tens of billions of dollars worth of lost opportunities. This is one more bit of evidence supporting an effort to reduce fear caused by over-estmated carcinogenic effects from low dose radiation.