[ RadSafe ] carcinogenicity of uranium

[Jeff Terry]

Hi Otto,

It is not limited to just DU. IMO, many reviewers are not living up to  
their responsibilities. In a literature search on one of the problems  
that we have been working on, my students discovered that in the last  
5 years, three completely different results were published from the  
same experimental technique. At best, one of the three could be  
correct.  We looked into the references that they cited to back their  
interpretation of the results and the papers cited had absolutely  
nothing in them related to what the papers cited them for. A cursory  
glance by the reviewers at the cited papers would have discovered  
this. None of the three papers should have been published. The review  
process failed miserably.

I am afraid that this is occurring much too often now.

Jeff

Jeff Terry
Asst. Professor of Physics
Life Science Bldg Rm 166
Illinois Institute of Technology
3101 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago IL 60616
630-252-9708
terryj at iit.edu




On Apr 17, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Otto G. Raabe wrote:

> It is amazing how much crap can be published based on nothing more  
> than wild imagination and hyperbole concerning uranium and DU.