[ RadSafe ] Climategate and LNT

[Raymond A Hoover]

One of the things that most concern me about this whole debate is how it relates to the LNT debate in Health Physics.  For many years now we have seen evidence of suppression of date relating to LNT (can you say Shipyard Workers Study).  Is it reasonable to say that we have a similar problem as does climate science???


--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Kai Kaletsch <eic at shaw.ca> wrote:


From: Kai Kaletsch <eic at shaw.ca>
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Climategate and LNT
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 10:26 AM


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. 
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