Is Fear of Radiation Bad for Your Health?

An interview with Prof Ed Calabrese, Professor of Toxicology at UMass Amherst, on the shocking mistakes made in assessing the danger of low doses of toxic agents (such as poisons, radiation, etc). Unscientific modeling has caused unnecessary terror about perfectly safe (or even beneficial) low doses, increased costs due to regulations that do not actually improve public safety, and prevented development of useful technologies.