Re: To: Cohen, Field, Lubin et. al. - LNT debate

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

	My data base has been offered to all requestors for several years,
and has been transmitted to many of them. Instructions follow:

Accessing our data base on radon vs lung cancer in U.S. Counties

	FTP into PITT.edu. This is usually done by typing "ftp.pitt.edu"
Then log in as "anonymous" and for password give your e-mail address.
Then type "cd ~ftp/users/b/l/blc" This gives 4 files,. Three of these are
data, 1601 rows (counties) with 76 columns. The meanings of the columns
are in the fourth file. For MINITAB users, short92.mtw or short.mtp should
be the better data files. For others, short.dat would be needed.

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu


On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Kjell A. Johansen wrote:

> I for one find this whole LNT/radon debate interesting.  The LNT
> question is an important one and the answer to this debate is germane to
> the whole basis of radiation protection and how we pratice the
> science/art of health physics.  If the regulations under which we work
> are to be based on facts and  tempered with what society deems to be
> acceptible risks, we must get the facts right.  It is obvious that in
> the case with radon, the facts appear not to be as clear cut as in
> measuring lenght and time.   Perhaps the time has come for the debators
> to share data bases so that the debate on both sides can be based on a
> shared set of  data as is, I believe, the data from Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki.  This would be in line with Dr. Cohen's suggestion of using a
> theoretical physicist to examine his mathematical derivations.
> 
> Kjell Johansen
> kajohans@powercom.net
> 
> ************************************************************************
> The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
> information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html
> 

************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html