/sci/ - Science & Math

My problem with people saying "there is nothing to worry about" is that what do they really care? It will be 1+ years before anything would manifest so this person will be long gone and not have to deal with it, and why would this person want to tell me that it is probably bad that I got the scan when they can just say "don't worry about it you'll be fine" just to calm me down and make it as if there is nothing to worry about so they don't have to have that confrontation with me.
It just can be that these doses are safe. They are so significantly above the background radiation dose that it just can't be safe. 2 mSv instantaneous dose IS a lot. I don't understand why everyone is shrugging their shoulders and acting like it's no biggie or something. It sounds crazy to say it's not bad. The logic is not there to me. I've looked at studies. I've seen how you can get cancer from doses all of the way down to 5-100 mSv according to the atomic bomb studies. Why would 2 mSv be any different? It seems like something that we will regret in a few decades or something as a big mistake.