Smells Like Lonny BoB Spirit

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You should probably air it out a few times, reduces the amount of radon (creates ionizing radiation) in your room.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't ionizing radiation harmless to him unless the ionizing radiation is ingested or inhaled in a high enough dose to cause severe cellular damage and necrosis. And these are extremely high levels I'm talking about.

Small doses can accumulate over time and cause a multitude of problems. Radiation is not kind to your cells, a most notable example mutations in your DNA leading to cancer. A recently publicized article in Science even states that the dose of a single CT, which is considered harmless, can lead to disturbing amounts of cancer cases. There is a reason why Biological Radiation Dosimetry is calculated by integrating over 50 years.

In short, yes, you are wrong. Radiation = bad for you. But a better question is, why not air out your room every once in a while? It takes a whole of 3 minutes.

I didn't say it wasn't bad, I simply meant the amount that they could be exposed to would not be sufficient to do them any permanent harm. Besides the penetrative characteristics of most types of radiation are inversely proportional to ioniztion ability. So the more ionizing the less it is capable of penetrating.
And I agree, why not air out the room once in a while? It must stink unless there is a fecal factory next door.

Radon is considered the second leading cause of lung cancer and leading environmental cause of cancer mortality. 1 in 20.000 people dies of radon radiation in the Netherlands, and our background radiation is half that in the U.S.

And while it is true that alpha particles do not penetrate as far as beta or gamma particles, radon is an odorless, colourless, noble gas. Which you will inhale, ergo the lung cancer.

You and your cancer rants.