Jess H. Brewer
1 min readMay 19, 2023

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Au contraire, they are welcome to drop one in my back yard, as long as I get to keep the debris and sell souvenirs. The people of Ramsar, Iran live in background radiation levels of 10 mSv per year, ten times more than the ICRP-recommended limit for exposure to the public from artificial sources... and they are LESS afflicted with cancer than the global average. Doctors routinely place radioactive wires in the brains of folks with aneurisms to help them heal faster. They also routinely administer injections of Tc-99m that render the patients technically a "radiation hazard". That's because they understand how dangerous radiation is NOT. Meanwhile people who do NOT understand that bandy about phrases like "radioactive poisoning" as if we should all run screaming from a banana just because it is full of K-40. This hysterical paranoia about RADIATION has to stop! If you were really so terrified of radiation you should NEVER go outdoors in the daytime without a tinfoil hat AND suit.

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Jess H. Brewer
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