[ RadSafe ] Climategate and LNT

[Kai Kaletsch]

Friends,

I think what this issue is making obvious is that politics and science are 
not a natural mix. Tactics that are absolutely necessary to 'win' in 
politics (such as trying to control the information and the message) are 
absolutely unacceptable in science, where it is not about 'winning'.

Health Physics also has more political implications than some other 
scientific disciplines. I hope we learn something from this. On the LNT 
debate, we need to do a much better job of differentiating between what the 
science sais and what we think the policy implications should be. On the 
epidemiology side, I think we could improve transparency by making rawer 
data available and thus reducing the perception that the authors are playing 
games with adjustments and binning.

Cheers,
Kai

Kai Kaletsch
Environmental Instruments Canada Inc.