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> Yeah, I've read all the arguments about harm, and I just don't buy it.

"I have no medical background whatsoever but I do not buy undisputed medical science."

> I'd get a CT scan every year if I could convince someone to sign off on it

20mSv of unnecessary ionizing radiation exposure a year, what could possibly go wrong? That whole-body CT scan is equivalent to getting at least EIGHTY chest x-rays, and ten times what a uranium miner receives in a year, and well within the range where an increased risk of cancer is noticeable in epidemiological data.

Case and point why this tool should not be generally available.




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