Why are people so scared of ionizing radiation?

Why are people so scared of ionizing radiation?

Hmm invisible rays of deadly energy that make you sick and usually end in a miserable painful death. What's not to like.

People fear what they do not know/understand.

People expose themselves to unnecessary dangers while trying to convince themselves and others they have some special ability to understand and appreciate a number of dangers including those posed by ionizing radiation.

Of course it's just a miserably misdirected attempt to obtain social status that only ends up giving them testicular cancer at some point.

What I'm trying to say is that you're dumber than the dumb people that are afraid of ionizing radiation, because at least they have a working heuristic, while you've got nothing besides a distorted understanding of the underlying mechanisms and enough desperation to expose yourself to unnecessary danger.

because they don't understand how ionizing radiation actually affects you at certain doses. Any dose below 100 mSv more than likely did not effect you at all, with under 10 mSv being considered negligible and having shown recently to cause no damage at all to your body. Our bodies can handle a decent amount of radiation that goes beyond whatever you would experience in a hospital, or in nature. Major accidents in nuclear power plants and atomic bombs have the chance of affecting you via the ionizing radiation they're releasing. I've seen people freaking out over their 5 mSv CT scan, thinking they're totally going to get cancer or something. It's really silly. I think radiophobia is really dangerous to the public. I've had people call my hospital to ask about cancer worries from getting their CT scan when they were having nausea and headaches after hitting their head. Like, your chances of this giving you cancer are so stupidly small, and you're going to really be more worried about that than your headaches and nausea?

If I even had to assign a percentage for any adult, it'd be like 1 in 10,000-20,000 maybe and that'd be just from the studies I've read that even suggest a risk. Lets say that was reality. Do you know how many people would press a button if they had a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying but they'd otherwise get even just $1,000? Most people would press that button like 100 times.

We literally still have no true evidence that ionizing radiation at these low doses does anything at all. We've shown that under 10 mSv does not damage DNA, so almost every CT scan is extremely safe.

Atomic bombs and nuclear reactor melt downs... just hope you aren't close by.

People breathe in radon every fucking second of their life, for fucks sake.

Exactly, I shove up an enriched Uranium-glass dildo up my ass every day and I yell "THORIUM IS THE FUTURE THORIUM IS THE FUTURE" for roughly 30 seconds until I receive my daily 60 Sievert dose. (which by the way is literally nothing, I can't believe people are worried about such minuscule amounts, lol)

Why aren't you?

well 60 Sv will kill you.

I'm still here, and I'm just fine. It's all those anti-nuclear liberals that make these things up.
People even use radiactive spas, I'd love to try that but I'm too fat to travel that far :(

I wear a jacket with thin lead covering my torso and a baseball cap lined with lead when going on an airplane. Annoying when they look at me funny going through the metal scanner. Could I wear my radiation shielding jacket in a CT machine?