Hormesis Is Biology, Not Religion
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Hormesis Is Biology, Not Religion
Should hormesis, as Thayer et al. (2006) implied in the title of their letter in the November 2006 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, be dismissed by scientists, regulators, and others as simply a new faithbased religion? No. Hormesis is a data-based biological reality, one that challenges the lowdose assumptions that currently drive risk assessment processes used by regulatory and pub...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.114-a688a