Re: May I propose a physicist?

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

Bernie, Do you really think explaining 'derivation' will help? :-)
[Do you recall the study in France of radon and air pollution? I can't find
the ref.]

Nero may be capable, but not 'independent.' He's been an 'activist,' with EPA
radon funds (though with with Price in the work Bogen used to show an inverse
relationship with lung cancer - that was likely an accident, if not downright
embarrassing :-).  Such results were simply ignored by Lubin's BEIR VI cabal
who dismissed the inverse response by making a personal attack on Cohen, in a
couple of paragraphs, not addressing either Cohen's data and not even
acknowledging confirmatory data. (Like the misrepresentation on this list that
it's "Cohen vs. everybody else!"  And the HPJ "peer-reviewers" who rejected an
independent confirmatory study from Germany with the "scientific basis":
"Everybody knows Cohen is wrong and ecologic studies shouldn't be pub'd"  :-(

Anthony V. Nero, Jr.
Environmental Energy Technologies Division 
Bldg. 90 Rm. 3058
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Affiliation: 1 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory/Environmental Energy Technologies
Division; 2 University of California at Berkeley/Energy and Resources Group 
Academic title: Staff Scientist 
Field of degree: physics 
Energy interest: 1 energy technology assessment; 2 indoor air quality; 3 risk
assessment in energy production and use 

E.g.,: in a 1989 award:
"For his outstanding research on a broad spectrum of problems involving
physics, the environment and public health, including the identification of
radon as a major health hazard, the study of indoor pollution and work on
nuclear proliferation and
reactor safety."

On a radon problem fact sheet: 
"Most of the information for this sheet comes from a Physics Today (April
1989) article "Earth, Air, Radon and Home" written by Anthony Nero - a senior
scientist with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's indoor-environment program."

No lit search, but don't see theoretical physics (a lot on the APS 'Forum on
Physics and Society,' not the usual role of a theoretical physicist? :-)

Regards, Jim
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Bernard L Cohen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 Radiationhealth@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Dr. Field and Cohen,
> >  It may not be clear to most people why you had
> > to derive a formula other than the initial BEIR IV formula in order to test
> > the BEIR IV formula. You may want to state why you had to perform any
> > derivation in order to test the BEIR IV linear formula?
> 
>         --Let me start with an example. To test Newton's famous formula,
> 
>                          F = m a
> 
> in a situation where there is a constant force, F ( e.g. a falling
> body), you do not ordinarily measure the acceleration, a. Rather, you
> start with F = m a and derive an expression for distance travelled vs
> time, and measure that, which is easier than measuring acceleration
> directly. In testing a theory, it is very common to derive its
> consequences and test them.
>         In my case, I had data on county lung cancer rates vs average
> radon exposures and wanted to use those data to test the BEIR-IV formula.
> I therefore started with the BEIR-IV formula and derived mathematically a
> relationship that my data can be used to test.
> 
> I> have a colleague who works in theoretical physics, Anthony Nero, here
> at the
> > University of California. He has also worked in the area of both physics and
> > radon for many years.  Would both of you (Dr. Cohen and Dr. Field) agree to
> > have Dr. Nero serve as a referee on this issue?
> 
>     -- Very probably Nero would be acceptable, but his work that I know
> about has not been in theoretical physics. Could you give me 2 or 3
> references to papers in theoretical physics that he has published?
> 
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