article_snippet: Fears persist among Japan's population over the effect on health of the radioactive leaks, despite repeated calls from scientists for judgements to be based on evidence.
article_snippet: Gerry Thomas, a specialist in thyroid cancer at Imperial College London, who also conducted research on health effects of the 1992 Chernobyl accident, told reporters in Tokyo the worries were disproportionate. '
article_snippet: The health effects caused by the radiation itself were very small, but the health effects that were caused by worrying about the radiation itself were much, much greater,' Gerry Thomas, a specialist in thyroid cancer at Imperial College London, who also conducted research on health effects of the 1992 Chernobyl accident said in Tokyo, referring to post-Chernobyl studies.