Re: Nuclear Power

[OFFTOWY@aol.com]

The fact that one person was exposed to some agent for some period of time, 
with or without effects, is not  reason to presume much of anything.  That 
same exposure and the presence or absence of effects, in combination with the 
preponderence of evidence derived by scientific methods, epidemiological 
studies, etc., may be the basis for drawing some sort of conclusion about 
possible effects on a group of people.

The fact that you were occupationally exposed to loud noises and received 
subsequent compensation does not lead to the irrefutable conclusion that 
those noises caused your hearing loss.  It is one possibility in a range of 
possible causes.

Lew LaGarde
offtowy@aol.com
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