Re: 1.3 billion people killed, maimed or diseased...-Rosalie Bertell

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In a message dated 6/20/00 12:11:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bcradsafers@hotmail.com writes: [Re: Dr. Rosalie Bertell]

> >Gerry Parker, Director of the MA Dept. of Public Health, was in
>the audience.  When he asked her what statistical test was used to >show 
>data significance, she replied that she didn't need a statistical >test; 
>she knew when the data was significant.

I think that her PhD is in statistics but I am not sure.
>  
>  My own reflections - I apologize if they are wrong,
>  Bjorn Cedervall       bcradsafers@hotmail.com
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Dr. Bertell's degree is as I recall in biostatistics. In the 1970s she was 
associated with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York State, and has 
been producing a string of  exaggerated claims about the health effects of 
radiation from man-made sources since at least 1972 to my knowledge. She was 
formerly a Carmellite nun. Perhaps her claim reported above that she did not 
need a test of statistical significance but "knew" when data was significant, 
stems from her belief her personal  judgments are somehow handed down from on 
high.

Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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