Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan

["dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>]

If an effect is not statistically discernable and there is no direct
evidence that something causes an effect, how do we know that there is an
effect?  If a tree doesn't fall in the forest when no one is there to hear
it does it make a sound?   What is the sound of no hands clapping?

Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com
2910 Main St. Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: Children may get too much radiation in CT scan


> <In addition, this new view of the scenario doesn't change the fact that
it
> will be difficult (if not impossible) to detect a change of 500 cancer
> fatalities in such a large population>
>
> Does this mean that any effect that is not statistically discernable
should
> be of no concern?



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