[ RadSafe ] ethics in research question

[James Salsman]

With regard to the following, would it be ethical or not to establish a
betting pool on the risk ratio in 2010?

"with medical records verification ... Dr. Kang and his colleagues
concluded that the risk of birth defects in children of deployed male
veterans was about 2.2 times that of non-deployed veterans."
  -- Department of Veterans Affairs (2003) "Q's & A's -- New
Information Regarding Birth Defects" Gulf War Review, vol. 12(1), page
10, fifth line from the end in:
      http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GulfWarNov03.pdf

Sincerely,
James Salsman