[ RadSafe ] Doyle and Ryan Gulf war reproductive health paper

[Syd H. Levine]

So as not to offend anyone, let me qualify calling Mr. Salsman a liberal by 
saying I meant typical US new left mentality.  "Liberal" means very 
different things in other parts of the world.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Syd H. Levine" <syd.levine at mindspring.com>
To: "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com>; "radsafelist" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Doyle and Ryan Gulf war reproductive health paper


> Gosh, we are in the presence of hacker greatness!  LOD, no less.  Are 
> those historical items posted about you correct, James?
>
> I found the piece about hardware hacking the phone lines in the dorm 
> interesting.  In typical liberal form, you blame your actions on the lax 
> security rather than your own bad character.  Putting this criticism in 
> perspective, I was also once a hacker, going way back to before 2600 days. 
> The difference between us is that you have never grown up as clearly 
> evidenced by your obviously still defective reasoning.
>
> And a final thought.  It is highly unlikely you walked away from 
> conspiracy charges in that credit card scam unless you "cooperated" with 
> the authorities.  If the story is true, what did you have to do to get out 
> of hot water?
>
> This post may generate some criticism, but Mr. Salsman's rude and 
> insulting conduct in this forum makes it fair game.
>
> Syd H. Levine
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Salsman" <jsalsman at gmail.com>
> To: "radsafelist" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Doyle and Ryan Gulf war reproductive health paper
>
>
>> The Doyle and Ryan paper at http://www.bovik.org/du/DoyleRyan2006.pdf
>> describes Dr. Kang's report of a 180% increase in birth defects in the
>> children of female February, 1991 Gulf War veterans as "modest" on
>> page 574.
>>
>> Are there any other descriptions in the literature or popular press
>> where a near-tripling of a serious medical condition is referred to
>> "modest"?
>>
>> I have a several-page letter from Charles Miller of the NRC where he
>> tries to defend that characterization at length, but repeatedly
>> implies throughout that the increase reported by Dr. Kang was
>> described by Doyle and Ryan as "moderate" instead of modest.  You can
>> probably find the letter on the NRC's ADAMS document management system
>> from their web site.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> James Salsman
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