[ RadSafe ] Jay M. Gould

[Muckerheide, James]

Interesting Otto,

I have used BEIR V (and BEIR IV's Mays plot) to similar effect.  (It looks
like BEIR VII has avoided including actual data to document the contradictory
results explicitly. :-)

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Otto G. Raabe
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:00 PM
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Jay M. Gould
> 
> At 04:44 PM 9/20/2005, Dukelow, James S Jr wrote:
> >Yesterday's (19 Sept 2005) NY Times announced the death of Jay M. Gould
> >at 90 years of age.
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> September 21, 2005
> 
> I have used Gould's book "Deadly Deceit" (Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A
> Goldman, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1990) to teach my students
> how
> to understand the logical flaws in the anti-nuclear activists clever but
> bogus view of radiation effects. It is a classic in its use of selective
> tunnel vision and the logical error called "affirming the consequent".
> [check http:\www.google.com if you want more information on the "affirming
> the consequent" error.]
> 
> I believe that the more we understand the twisted logic used by people
> like
> Gould, the better we can present accurate views.
> 
> Otto
> 
> 
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