List of Publications Available Electronically
BOOKS :Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population,
(1999, 699 pages -- updated: April 24, 2000)
- Preventing Breast Cancer:
The Story Of A Major, Proven, Preventable Cause Of This Disease,
(1996, 424 pages -- COMPLETE: April 5, 1998)
- Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis,
(1990, 480 pgs -- updated: March 12, 1998)
- Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island
(contents of the 1971+1979 printings -- COMPLETE: December 16, 1998)2008 :
- CT Heart Scans: Two Warnings from U.S. Medical History
unabbreviated version
by Egan O'Connor, editor for the late Prof. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., July 10, 20082007 :
- John W. Gofman, 88; medical physicist warned of the health effects of radiation
by Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 28, 20072004 :
- Comments upon the “Draft Recommendations
of the International Commission on Radiological Protection.”
Submitted to the ICRP by John Gofman and Egan O'Connor, December 26, 2004.2003 :
- FDA Proposes New X-Ray Regulations: Immense Health Benefits Possible
--- Unless Naysayers Prevail.
X-Ray-Induced Diseases, Hormesis, and Medical Ethics.
March 31, 2003. Testimony submitted to the FDA, by John Gofman and Egan O'Connor2002 :
- What Are the Main Critiques of the 1999 Study by Gofman,
after Three Years of Peer-Review?
Six Critiques of Radiation from Medical Procedures
in the Causation of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD), November 2002
- From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:2001 :
- From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:
- Links to Professional Societies, Current to 12 Oct 2001
- Who Says that Usual X-Ray Doses Can Be Much Lower?, October 2001
- X-Radiation and Gamma Radiation:
Comments on Their Nomination as Known Human Carcinogens
for the Eleventh Report on Carcinogens (RoC), September 11, 2001- COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) X-RAY EXAMS:
Estimated Doses to Patients, September 2001- Breast Cancer: Why Do We Permit So Many Preventable Cases?, June 2001
- How the Cold War Caused Millions of American Deaths
Through Medical Practice:
A Story of Intended and Unintended Consequences, April, 2001- X-Ray Dose-Measuring Service for Physicians and Dentists, January 2001
- Solving Energy Shortages without Nuclear Power: Three Easy Rules, April 2001
- The Causes of Cancer: Is There "Too Much Emphasis on Genes,
and Not Enough on the Environment?" How to Avoid Some Mistakes, April 2001
- Key Facts Justifying Opposition to Nuclear Pollution at Any Level: A Brief Letter of Concern,
February 6, 20012000 :
- From XaHP: The X-rays and Health Project,
An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility:
- Eight Key Points: Your Stake in
the Patients' Right-to-Know about X-Rays, December 7, 2000- A Proposal for Radiologists: How a Specific Consultation Can Become a Major
Asset for the Practice and for the Community, October 2000- Mammography and XaHP (the X-Rays and Health Project):
Is There Any Conflict? Four Brief Comments, October 2000- Do X-Ray Practitioners Give Enough Attention to Minimizing
the Patients' X-Ray Dosage? Some Opinions, Some Facts, September 2000- How X-Ray Doses Vary From One X-Ray Practitioner to Another:
Nationwide Surveys, September 2000- Fear, and the Patients' Right-to-Know: The Viewpoint
of an Influential Radiologist, Deserving a Public Response, September 2000- A Patient's Guide, When X-Rays Are Proposed, September 2000
- Making the Bay Area a Model for California and the Nation:
A Guaranteed Way to Reduce Future Cancer-Rates, Fall 2000- X-Rays: The Fallacy of the "Day in the Sun" Comparison, February 28, 2000
- A New, Low-Cost Way to Shake a Mistaken Mindset, April 2, 2000
- Preventing an Exercise in Self-Defeat:
The Relevance of Medical Radiation to Nuclear Pollution, April 2000
- Additional Materials Related to Radiation from Medical Procedures (RAMP) :
- One Easy and Important Step You Can Take
Toward Avoiding Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease:
An Affordable Summary of New Evidence about X-Rays,February 2000 - Are X-Ray Procedures Equivalent, in Extra Radiation Dose,
To Taking an Airplane Trip? ,February 28, 2000 - What Is an "Entrance Dose" of X-Rays?,
February 2000 - RAMP Addition-1: "Expectations",
February 19, 2000 - RAMP Addition-2: "Causation",
February 25, 2000 - RAMP Addition-3: "Atherogenic Mutations",
March 9, 2000 1999 :
- Letter of Concern, regarding the biological effects of ionizing radiation, May 11, 1999
- Cancer in the Family: Does Each Case Require More Than One Cause?
The Likelihood of Co-Action., April 19991998 :
- CNR Renewal Request, Fall 1998
- "Asleep at the Wheel": The Special Menace
of Inherited Afflictions from Ionizing Radiation, Fall 1998
- The Fission-Product Equivalence
between Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Weapons, Fall 1998
Adapted from Vol.117, No. 105, July 8, 1971,of the Congressional Record
- Comments on Extremely Low Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields,
October 2, 1998
- Mammography: An Individual's Estimated Risk that the
Examination Itself Will Cause Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer,June 9, 1998
- Confirmation that Ionizing Radiation Can Induce Genomic Instability:
What is Genomic Instability, and Why Is It So Important?, Spring 19981997 :
- Reject the Policy of Putting Radioactive Scrap-Metal into Commerce, December 1, 1997
- Cassini Fly-By: Will the "Ceramic" Plutonium Still Be a Cohesive Solid,
or Will Its Self-Irradiation Have Made It Very Fragile?,
An Open Inquiry to NASA and DOE,October 23, 1997
- The Following 3 Pieces Together Comprise The Fall '97 mailing:
Need for "Adversary Science" -- the Cassini Example Solar-Energy Update: Good News about Solar Energy & Energy-Efficiency Corrections of Frontline's "Nuclear Reaction"
- The Free-Radical Fallacy about Ionizing Radiation:
Demonstration That a Popular Claim Is Senseless,October 1997
- A Wake-Up Call for Everyone Who Dislikes Cancer and Inherited Afflictions, Spring 1997
- Letter of Protest to KQED President re:
broadcasting Frontline's "Nuclear Reaction",April 25, 1997
- Supporting files to the Preventing Breast Cancer book:
1996 :
- Answers to Frequently-Asked-Questions about "Radiation", Fall 1996
- Letters To the Editor -- Unsafe in any dose,
March 19, 1996
- Chernobyl's 10th: Cancer and Nuclear-Age Peace -- Don't Be Deceived,
March 9, 1996 1995 :
- What Is Factually Wrong with This Belief:
"Harm from Low-Dose Radiation Is Just Hypothetical --- Not Proven," Fall 1995
- Seven Comments on Proposed Radiation "Standards"
for the Yucca Mountain Rad-Waste Respository,October 1995 1994 :
1993 :
- Reflections on "Mission Impossible"
(30th anniversary of LLNL Biology Programs),November 22, 1993
- What Is Humanity's Most Harmful Law?
The Law of Concentrated Benefit over Diffuse Injury, November 1993
- Beware the Data Diddlers, by Dr. John Gofman, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1993
- Radio-Iodine: From Hanford To Chernobyl . . . And Beyond?, Spring 1993
1992 :
- The Right Livelihood Award, 1992, John Gofman (USA)
- Bio-Medical "Un-Knowledge" And Nuclear Pollution: A Common-Sense Proposal,
December 9, 1992
- No One Escapes Harm: The Essential Story of In-Utero Irradiation,
November 1992
- Radiation-Inducible Chromosome Injuries: Some Recent Evidence
on Major Health Consequences, Spring 19921991 :
- "Holocaust" versus "Nothing Happened"
(IAEA and WHO -tainted Chernobyl Radiation databases), Fall 1991
1990 :
- The Greening of Nuclear Power and The De-Regulating of Nuclear Waste:
Four Key Facts Which Need Attention, November 19901989 :
- "For Want of a Nail . . . The Rider Was Lost" :
A Big Flag of Warning from the Radiation Issue, November, 19891988 :
- What About Reviving Nuclear Power?, October, 1988
1981 :
- The Top 10 Pronuclear Arguments . . . Answered, January 1981
1972 : SELECTED INTERVIEWS :
- The Patient's Right-To-Know,
June 2000 Interview With Dr. John Gofman from The Women's Menopausal Network
- HUMAN RADIATION STUDIES: REMEMBERING THE EARLY YEARS,
Oral Histories: Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., DOE,December 20, 1994
- Gofman on the health effects of radiation:
`There is no safe threshold', and `Challenging The Nuclear Establishment', 2-part interview in UCSF's synapse, January 1994
- A Conversation with John Gofman, Ph.D. '43, California Monthly, April 1993
- The Plowboy Interview: Dr. John W. Gofman,
Nuclear And Antinuclear Scientist, March 1981
- Curriculum Vitae of Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.
Also on ratical, see:
- "CHAPTER 4, John W. Gofman, Medical Physicist" from Leslie Freeman's tremendous book,
Nuclear Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out, 1981
- Dr. John Gofman, A Nuclear Researcher Who Refuses To Lie About Radiation Dangers,
NUCLEAR GUARDIANSHIP FORUM, Issue 3, Spring 1994