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    What doesn’t kill you …

    May 09, 2021 2 minutes
    by Bob Brockie

    Radioactivity may not be as dangerous as previously thought. That’s the message from a large-scale survey by Israeli scientists who compared background radiation levels in all 3129 US counties with health statistics from those counties.

    The rocks and soils of every spot on Earth emit some natural radio-activity and more

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