Communication about risk

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

Mr. Muckerheide,

I asked for the favour of your reply, not insult.  I understand that if you 
can not address the thoughts in my message below, it easier to attack the 
messenger.  I thought I had responded to your references regarding Mr. 
Bogen, etc. below.

I had a friend once that quit after the first inning because the game was 
not going his way.  He said, I will see you later and he left with his bat 
and ball. We still stayed friends.  I always thought it was better to strike 
out, then to not play the game.  I may miss the ball now and then, but I 
attempted to engage in honest dialogue.   You repeatedly attack anyone on 
the list that does not have your views.  I understand you are a lobbyist for 
your position, but does not always agreeing with you = missing the point?

Perhaps this site offering advice on communication may help improve the 
dialogue

http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/DECC/riskcommbib/

For what its worth - Harry

harryhinks@hotmail.com

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>From: Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>

>You always seem to "miss" the whole point.  You never respond to anything
>you get, and can't get the substance.  You're not even trying to 
>understand.
>Let's not bother.  I'll be back in a week or so.
>-----------------------------------


> > From: "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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