Re: Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

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

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, William Prestwich wrote:

> This is probably a dumb question, but how would the differences
>  in dose estimates from the marginal variations reported compare with the
> diferrences in natural doses due to geography. In other words, if one
> assumed the effect to be true what would it predict for say an increase in
> infant health effects for the folks in Denver?

   --How about the fact that the lung cancer rates in 1700 U.S.counties
decrease clearly and far beyond statistical uncertainty with increasing
exposure to radon, with or without taking into account differences in 
smoking and over 500 other socioeconomic, geographic, environmental, etc
factors? Almost any published epidemiological study of radiation
induced cancer or genetic diseases can be shown to refute what Christie
Brinkley is saying.  


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


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