[ RadSafe ] Re: "Science" reports on background radiation and health

[John Jacobus]

Are they based on peer reviewed scientific studies, or
ancedotal stories?  

Come on.  You charge that anti-nuclear people do not
use sound science.  Do you have any?

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> John, Look below. It's in "Science."  He says:
> 
> "On the contrary, in some cases the individuals
> living in these HBRAs appear
> to be even healthier and to live longer than those
> living in control areas
> that are not classified as HBRAs." 
> 
> Our experience in publishing our "Policy Forum"
> paper in "Science," and the
> "Response to Comments," had peer-reviewers, starting
> with Phil Abelson(!),
> and editorial reviewers, assuring that our
> statements were able to be
> substantiated.  Of course, not all epi studies have
> the power to demonstrate
> such results.
> 
> See the statements and endnotes in our "Science"
> paper and response to
> comments also, by linking from the top-left column
> at:
> http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/docs/ 
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> ========================
> 
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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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