Title: The Scientists Who Alerted Us To The Dangers of Radiation
Subject Classification:  Science, Healthcare, Research  
BIC Classification: RNQ, PNRL, BGT
BISAC Classification: SCI058000, TEC028000, BIO015000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 28 Mar 2024
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-193-3
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-194-0
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-446-0

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Description

This book remembers and commemorates many brave radiation scientists, most of whom are no longer with us. These scientists published findings that radiation risks were more dangerous than officially accepted at the time. However they often suffered as a result from official displeasure, defamatory articles, and public obloquy. Scientific findings, especially recently, have revealed that these defamed and/or disadvantaged scientists were actually correct in their assessments that official risk factors for radiation were too low and needed to be increased. The lives of these scientists are discussed, from early radiation pioneers including Ernest Rutherford, Hermann Mueller and Linus Pauling, to contemporary scientists such as Steve Wing.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Ian Fairlie is a consultant on Environmental Radioactivity, based in London, UK. Cindy Folkers is a Radiation and Health Hazard Specialist at Beyond Nuclear, Maryland, USA

Reviews

“In short, this book is a page-turner … congratulations on hitting the nail on the head page after page in what promises to be one of the best books on radiation to come down the pike.”
- Robert Del Tredici, photographer, artist and activist, and co-founder of the Atomic Photographers Guild

"This is a fascinating study of scientists who found evidence that radiation risks were greater than official estimates and were demoted, defunded, maligned for their research—but were subsequently proved right. Western governments do not jail dissident scientists, but they make it difficult, often impossible, for them to carry on. Fairlie and Folkers give a fine-grained account of strategies deployed to discredit and silence inconvenient truths. The authors had no idea this story would be so big. They thought they’d be telling the stories of a half a dozen or so whistleblowing scientists, but that number ballooned to two dozen and more, both east and west and on both sides of the Atlantic. They were surprised by how highly esteemed these scientists were, the recipients of the highest honors and awards, yet how consistently their findings were downplayed, misrepresented, or ignored. It’s difficult to be an independent scientist in this field, since the salaries of most radiation scientists are paid by the nuclear establishment— the nuclear industry, nuclear weapons facilities and research labs, government protection bodies— which accounts for a strong tendency to minimize risk. This is an important book that shows how vulnerable scientific truth is to political interests. It provides a welcome commemoration of scientists who carried on at great cost. These biographies, taken together—and I’ve never seen them brought together like this in a single book— tell a powerful story of a nuclear establishment that has shown greater concern for the reputation and prospects of nuclear power and weapons than the damage inflicted on humans and the environment."
- Dr Gayle Greene, Professor Emerita, Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA

"This book endorsement is meant for readers with interest or concern in the known risk coming from nuclear radiation, and the associated concerns that this technology imposes on everyone. A webinar given this past January by the above named authors relating to their book convinced me to order it. Having read it, I urge you to do the same. The book contains related biographical information on 24 radiation scientists who blew the whistle on radiation risks but were victimised by their governments and the nuclear establishment for doing so. I wrote the attached synopsis with the purpose to provide the public with insight into the fabrications supplied by the nuclear establishment, and by pro-nuclear government edicts over many years; the authors have given their consent to share my summary. It is intended to spark interest to read the entire book so as to learn about government suppressed health hazards produced by all nuclear power plants and other nuclear enterprises, including the military, that are currently permitted to emit cancer-causing radiation into their immediate surroundings, and far beyond."
- Sam Arnold, Woodstock, N.B., Canada