Keith Baverstock

Keith Baverstock is a physical chemist currently working with a Citizen-Scientist group in Tokyo on the public health follow-up to the Fukushima accident. Former Advisor for the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation, and then Professor of Public Health and Ionising Radiation at the University of Eastern Finland, he has worked on ionizing radiation and its impact on human health. More recently he has been exploring the biology underlying genomic instability.

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Genetics Genes Without Prominence [long_description] Genes alone do not dictate phenotype. Applying dynamical systems theory to biological organisms, Keith Baverstock argues that natural selection is based on metabolic efficiency, not on genetic variation. Cellular phenotypes function as systems attractors, the real units of inheritance.
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letter Nuclear Safety
In response to “The Nuclear Reaction”
[short_description] With his telescope to his blind eye, Michael Fumento manages not to see two signals: the public health costs of nuclear accidents, and the economic costs of dealing with nuclear waste.

ISSN #2576–4403