Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation by Timothy Jorgensen1
The point is that risk perception drives our decision making, and these perceptions often do not correspond to the real risk levels, because irrational fear is taking our brains hostage. When irrational fear enters the picture, it is difficult to objectively weight risks. Ironically, health decisions driven by fear may actually cause us to make choices that increase, rather than decrease, our risks.” p. 2
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Writers come in two principal categories—those who are overtly insecure and those who are covertly insecure—and they can all use help.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is professor of Radiation Medicine, and director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program, at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His scientific expertise is in radiation biology, cancer epidemiology, and public health. His research interests include the genetic determinants of cellular radiation resistance, and the genes that modify the risk of cancer. ↩︎