The LNT model of radiation became the model to use after the Rockefeller Foundation put their weight on the scale.
They scooped up the unemployed Herman Muller who then popularised his “theory”
A newly discovered letter written by Hermann J. Muller in August 1948, reveals that he claimed to have evidence that multiple papers by Frederick Hanson and Florence Heys, including those that supported the linear non-threshold (LNT) dose response model for hereditary and cancer risk assessment, were fraudulent and thus untrustworthy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009279723004544
