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> the "banana equivalent dose" [is] "very useful in attempting to explain infinitesimal doses (and corresponding infinitesimal risks) to members of the public"

It's not though, unless you have a strong a priori belief that eating a banana is safe with respect to radiation.

Who doesn't have a strong a priori belief that bananas are safe to eat?

You clearly fell for BigBanana's propaganda.

More seriously -- challenging "US standard" dietary norms often leads to fruitful discussions of nutrition and how off-optimal most "common sense" tends to be.

Sample size of one: I have eaten bananas, and I'm not dead.

Just think of all the lunatics living next to banana plantations! Or having banana trees in their back yard.

And their children playing under those trees!!

Monsters!

Ah for the old days where you only had to worry about the wafts of DDT floating over the fence!

Everyone who ate bananas in this video are dead...

New York City 1900

https://youtu.be/QlBinV6pFM8

Eating bananas is very safe. Unless there is a poisonous spider inside it.