George McKelvey provided the appropriate background music: My Radiation Baby

The radiation in the zone is actually making them smaller...
...or so says Jeremy Wade.

Yes, and completing a spice run in the least distance possible is the actual legit challenge, as the area is strewn with radiation and asteroid fields that usually require circumnavigation, thus, making the run longer than if you could go in a straight line.

If you know the spots where there are no asteroids, or the ship can survive the radiation.....you can do it in a much shorter distance

"A spoonful of sugar, makes ra-di-ation, go dooown, your white count goes up, the radiation goes down!"

Here's one for ya: every summer, several hundred Belarusian/Ukrainian children, age 8 to 15, are flown to my neck of the woods to spend four weeks in a non-radioactive environment in order to reduce their levels of radiation and bolster their immune systems. The next plane with 119 children and nine mothers is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday.

Radiation-eating fungus, ehh???-There's hope for the big brown radioactive plastic-water-ball yet...

Haven't these suckers been told that Europa orbits within the massive radiation belts of Jupiter?

Flying with a radiation detector and looking for a dirty bomb? Possible that evidence from the Boston bomber(s) is leading them to think it exists...

I'm inclined to fall in the middle here.
Smoked a pack a day for 20 years and got lung cancer? That's a victim that took a risk and lost. BUT...
It's impossible to eliminate cancer risk entirely. Cancer is semi-random with an off-on trigger. Risk is cumulative, and while incidence can be correlated with risk across populations, incidence is not directly correlated with risk for a given individual. Some people will tan for years and never experience the specific set of mutations and biologic failsafe failures that results in melanoma, while others will trigger that specific set of conditions rapidly, even when the starting biologic conditions\predispositions are the same.
So, yes, I believe some people "get credit" for their cancer (or other illnesses) because of their behaviors, but others are just unlucky.
Even setting aside the randomness of incidence, we're constantly bombarded with a significant cancer risk factor in the form of ionizing radiation, and not just from avoidable sources like deciding to live in a brick house or eating bananas.
I also disagree with the idea that more money wouldn't help eliminate (contrast with "cure") cancer, because many organizations funding cancer research are looking at identifying risk factors, which leads to opportunities for educating populations about avoiding those risk factors. Cervical cancer can be caused by HPV? Get your kids vaccinated, don't have unprotected sex, etc. Lung cancer can be caused by smoking? Stop smoking! It isn't just about finding a magic medication to reverse cellular mutations or target mutated cells, although that would be fantastic.

Interesting info:
The colourful dots you see all over the shot at the start as he is talking, are pixels in the CCD of the camera that have been hit by radiation from space!

The pixels have been exposed to energetic particles with such intensity that they no longer see a gradient between light and dark, its all light....the pixel has been 'saturated' to the point of damage.

The detail is best seen in full screen @720p. You wont see them in the lower-resolution streams.

Yo mama so old and so huge, all we can see of her now is the cosmic background radiation.

I guess it's time we stop using those incredibly stupid things called antibiotics because we're breeding resistant organisms for those as well. The facts make it damned clear that the only winner in this race are pharmaceutical companies. Patients pay more for the medicine as germs become more resistant. In another 20 years our antibiotics will be useless, but pharmaceutical companies will happily move on to the next longterm fuckup that is profitable in the short run.

While we're at it we should stop using idiotic chemotherapy and radiation for cancer because we only end up with resistant cells.

Do you really see no benefit to pesticides? Not a single upside? That's strange because they keep selling them. Someone's buying.

Yes, it would be grossly untrue.

Henri Becquerel discovered radiation and it was further researched by himself and his two doctoral students Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, for which all three received a joint Nobel Prize.

Yes, and calling Marie Curie an inventor for discovering radiation is very inaccurate. She was one of the greatest scientists of all time, and her sacrifice is well remembered. Incidentally, I've heard her notebooks are still radioactive.

and then three months later, they all died of radiation poisoning!