Re: alpha particles and lung cancer

["Harry Hinks" <harryhinks@hotmail.com>]

Mr. Muckerheide,

It looks like the work that is being ignored are the many studies performed 
in the U.S., England and elsewhere that do not show a hormetic effect with 
radon.  I think these studies actually measured radon in the homes where the 
people lived who had lung cancer.  I don't think Dr. Cohen's or Scheutman's 
studies do that.  In the references provided by you, I see no radon studies 
performed by Dr. Becker.  A friend in Ottawa said there was a group that was 
currently performing a study near Saxony that actually measured the radon in 
the homes where the people had the lung cancer.  Do you know anything about 
this?  Could a possible reason be that the studies you mentioned 
(Scheutmann, Conrady) are not being published is because they don't measure 
individual homes where the people developed the lung cancer?  It may not be 
a conspiracy.

I read the paper by Mr. Bogen.  Why do you say Mr. Bogen's paper confirms 
Dr. Cohen's data?  All Bogen said was that his paper shows that Cohen's data 
may be biologically plausible.  That is a bit of a disconnect from confirms.

What do you mean by your statement that Dr. Wichmann and others cloud the 
data?  I am not sure what you mean by the word, obfuscate.  Does this mean 
you think they fabricate the data? Do you think the other researchers in 
Finland, the States, England and elsewhere  (Pershagen, Doll, Darby, 
Alavanja, Fields, Lubin)also cloud data?  Are all these people 
establishment?  In your opinion, where do researchers work that are not 
establishment?  Could the large sums of money being made by the spas in 
Germany obfuscate the findings of the researchers at the spas?

The favour of you reply is appreciated.

Harry Hinks
harryhinks@hotmail.com

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>Some of  your answers regarding Saxony are presented by Dr. Becker at:
>http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Docs/RSHSympNov00/Becker.htm
>
>  see also a presentation paper at our 1999 Tokyo Symposium:
>http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh/Docs/ICONE7-Tokyo99/KB99-tokyo.html

>This is the typical case of substantial work being ignored, especially work
>by Schuettmann, Conrady, and others, while, like in the US, $ millions of
>gov't/rad protection "research" funds are being dropped on establishment
>people to obfuscate the data - Wichmann et al.

Note also that Bernie Cohen's data have been independently confirmed based
>on an entirely different analysis by Ken Bogen at LBL. Women lung cancer
>mortality 1950-54 (60-80 yr old 4% smoking,  40-80 yr old, 11% smoking), 
>vs.
>EPA by-county environmental radon data (not residential measurements).   
>See
>the first 2 paragraphs of the "Methods and Materials" section, and Figure 
>2a
>to see the data plotted:
>http://www.belleonline.com/n3v72.html
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards, Jim
>muckerheide@mediaone.net

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