Ian Fairlie

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'''Ian Fairlie''' is a professional [[anti-nuclear]] power activist.<ref name="credentials">Ian Fairlie website: [http://www.ianfairlie.org/about-ian-fairlie/ About Ian Fairlie]</ref> At one stage he was secretary of Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE),<ref>[http://www.rachel.org/lib/cerrie_report.041015.pdf Report of the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE), 2004.]</ref> which included such illustrious [[anti-nuclear]] power campaigners as [[Christopher Busby]] among its members. [[Ipse dixit|He flaunts his status as a science graduate]]<ref>[http://www.ianfairlie.org/about-ian-fairlie/ Fairlie, Ian. biography]</ref> to lobby government against [[nuclear power]].<ref>[http://www.ianfairlie.org/news/us-nrc-consultation-lnt-vs-hormesis/ Fairlie, Ian. "US NRC Consultation: LNT vs hormesis", August 1, 2015]</ref> He speaks passionately at anti-nuclear power rallies (for example: just after the [[Fukushima]] tsunami, he spoke in Berlin).<ref>[https://vimeo.com/22762496 Fairlie, Ian. Speech at Chernobyl Congress (IPPNW conference) Berlin. 9 April 2011]</ref>

He has been very influential in promoting [[radiophobia]] within the [[UK]] government and beyond as he had been the head of the Secretariat of the UK Government’s CERRIE Committee on internal [[radiation]] risks from 2000 to 2004, and after retiring from his post acted as a consultant on radiation matters to regional, domestic and international European governing bodies.<ref name="credentials" />

He has been accused of [[cherry-picking]] data. As an example he referred to the atomic bomb survivor study in 2011<ref>[http://www.ianfairlie.org/news/are-radiation-risks-overrated/ Fairlie, Ian. "Are Radiation Risks Overrated?", November 24, 2011]</ref> because it appeared to support the [[Linear no-threshold|linear no-threshold (LNT) or no-safe dose hypothesis]] of radiation harm he supports. Newer atomic bomb survivor data however no longer support the LNT model (and its no safe dose),<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22171960 Ozasa, K., et al. 2012. Studies of the mortality of atomic bomb survivors, Report 14, 1950-2003: an overview of cancer and noncancer diseases. ''Radiat Res.,'' 177, 229-43.]</ref> because the dose-response data are no longer linear, having significant curvature. [[willful ignorance|He just ignores the newer data]].

==False claims made by Ian Fairlie:<ref>[http://energyknot.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/ian-fairlie-fukushima-speech.html Fairlie, Ian. speech transcript]</ref>==

{{Quotebox|"I think that [[Fukushima]] is already more serious than [[Chernobyl]]"}}

{{Quotebox|"We have already seen fuel cladding fires in the fuel ponds"}}

{{Quotebox|"There's been huge amounts of air emissions to the point whereby, in children's playgrounds and schools about 60 to 70 kilometres away we seeing annual doses &mdash; hourly doses (which if you worked it up to an annual dose) would be 250 mSv per year"}}

{{Quotebox|"despite what the IAEA and the WHO and UNSCEAR have said in their [[denialism|denials]] of the effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima"}}

==External links==
*[http://www.ianfairlie.org/ Ian Fairlie website]

==References==
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