"Does It Matter Whether One Risk Is Of A Minor Adversity To Many People While Another Is A Major Impact On A Few?"

Posted on December 14, 2011 by David Oliver
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Let's face it, the linear no-threshold argument has nothing to do with logic, nor even public health (though everything to do with redistributionist politics). For the politics-free argument that it carries the seeds of its own demise see:

"By looking only at one dimension at a time – one agent to which more or less exposure can occur and one endpoint affected by it – it is possible to think that one is being protective by assuming a linear/no-threshold dose-response. But if this idea is widely applied, then the world is cast as sitting on a multidimensional knife’s edge in which any change in one dimension affects everything else with no level of tolerance."

That's a profoundly good sentence.

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