[ RadSafe ] SAFECAST Citizen Geiger Counter Monitoring - was High Radioactivity Particles in Japanese House Dusts

[Brad Keck]

There are a lot of issues with this report.  It is need of a serious technical review for both the chemical and radiochemical aspects.  Maybe their advisors will step up and make a full technical report available for criticism, and not just this summary? 

But the most egregious thing in my humble view is that they've taken a microscopic particle and tried to make a mountain out of a mole hill by using a food specification ( for kg's of food) on a microscopic particle (ug's).  This is also reflected in their average values and errors which - to their credit - do encompass the null result. 





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> On Apr 21, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here are the advisors who keep them in line - they would be good group
> to start with
> 
> Dan Sythe
> Joi Ito
> Ian McFarland
> Jun Murai
> Ray Ozzie
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, Brad - they have a large group of people on this page - does
>> anyone on RADSAFE have any personal experience with any of them - are
>> they knowledgeable?
>> 
>> http://blog.safecast.org/team/
>> 
>> Roger Helbig
>> 
>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Brad Keck <bradkeck at mac.com> wrote:
>>> This apparently is sponsored by "safecast"  - another "open science" forum.
>>> 
>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/safecast-open-information/
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