John Gofman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which cannot be trusted.
-- John Gofman

#Cancer #People #Important
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).
-- John Gofman

#Cancer #Dark #Years
By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.
-- John Gofman

#Epidemiology #Track #Analysis
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
-- John Gofman

#Directors #Purpose #Labs
Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.
-- John Gofman

#Cancer #Years #Nuclear
There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative.Â Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.
-- John Gofman

#Cancer #Excess #Safe

I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.
The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

John Gofman famous quotes

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