army1987 comments on Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same - Less Wrong
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Be wary of placing too much trust in that logic, that way lies homeopathy.
For the radiation thing there's at least some evidence that humans can adapt to high background radiation but I've never seen any evidence that the reaction ever outweighs the exposure.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11769138
Yep, my impression from what I can remember of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis is that people who believe models other than LNT are privileging the hypothesis.