NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Christopher Busby

Christopher Busby is a chemist born in 1945 from United Kingdom. He is the Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risks, based in Brussels, and the director of Green Audit, a environmental consultancy agency.

He has studied the effects of low dose radiation on health.

He is the author of Wings of Death and Wolves of Water, studies on effects of radiation on human health.

Publications

Wings of Death. Nuclear Pollution and Human Health, 1995, ISBN 1-897761-03-1
Wolves of Water, 2007, ISBN 1897761260

External links

Dr. Busby's resumePDF (165 KiB)
Green Audit
Low Level Radiation Campaign
Committee Examining Radiation Risk of Internal Emitters
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/routinereleases/busbyonmillstone32001.htm

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COMMENTARY

David Coleman (Bangor, N Wales.)
1st January 2009

I am not sure this material is appropriate to a serious encyclopedia.

It is fringe material with no proven scientific substance. The COMARE have referred to the work by Busby "as badly flawed" which in scientific speak means it is worthless.

The publications quoted her are full of errors and provide a distorted view of reality, possibly for political purposes. Worse than that thye are full of unsubstantiated and defamatory comments against professional scientists

In particular the last reference claims to have found a cancer cluster in Bangor which has been shown to non existent when proper scientific methods are used.

For a peer reviewed comment on all this work by Busby, see the paper 'Leukaemia incidence in Welsh children linked with low level radiation - making sense of some erroneous results published in the media' by John A Steward et al (http://herald.iop.org/jrp/m47/lt/170202/link/1417), and the accompanying Editorial by Richard Wakeford 'What to believe and what not to believe' (http://herald.iop.org/jrp/m47/lt/170202/link/1418), discuss the media reporting of results on the effects of low-level radiation (and the broader issues arising). Both these articles are free-to-read ensuring the widest possible audience.

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