No, New Viral Study Doesn’t Show Pilots And Flight Attendants Are Dying From Radiation Cancer

A viral claim says a new JAMA Internal Medicine paper shows cosmic radiation is causing deadly cancers in pilots and flight attendants, but that is not what the study proves. Flight crew radiation exposure is real and worth tracking, and some cancers such as melanoma and breast cancer appear elevated in parts of the literature, but this paper does not show that aviation workers are more likely to