Chris Busby: Why do we die? Radiation, genes and lifespan

Posted: 13th August 2025

This is a fascinating presentation well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA78VClKSdE

Dr Busby discusses human (and mammalian) lifespan and concludes, with evidence and mathematical analysis, that it is defined by lifetime radiation exposure. This idea he first discussed in his 1995 book “Wings of Death” and is elaborated in this video. His latest contribution to the thesis in that book, and the letter he wrote to the British Medical Journal on the subject, published in 1994, is his study where he examines the effects of atmospheric nuclear tests on human cancer and lifespan. He compared cancer mortality in high rainfall States of the USA (Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennesee, Louisiana) with the low rainfall (and nuclear fallout) States in the West (California, New Mexico, Arizona) . Comparing the excess risk from cancer identified a cohort birth year effect peaking with the fallout peak in 1955-65. This shows that the cancer epidemic is caused by the atmospheric tests, and is now seen in young people who were the children of those born in 1955-65. This also has significance for lifespan and for future generations. It also means that the current radiation risk model is false and dishonest, and that a nuclear power future will affect lifespan, fertility and cancer risk. Google: Busby+fallout+cancer. Donate (if you could) at www.greenaudit.org