RE: Edward Radford (1922-2001)

[Sonter Mark <sonterm@EPA.NSW.GOV.AU>]

Radford gained a bit of notoriety in the uranium mining fraternity for his

(I think, flawed) epidemiology studies of lung cancer rates in swedish

underground iron ore miners vis-à-vis their radon daughter exposures. I

remember a confrontation at the 1981 Colorado Radiation in Mining Conference

between him and AECB uranium mine regulator and ex-miner Al Dory, in which

it became apparent that Radford had ignored some basic epidemiological

requirements and had probably purposely set out to get his desired

outcome.....



Mark Sonter



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	From:	Otto G. Raabe [SMTP:ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU]

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	Subject:	Edward Radford (1922-2001)



	October 23, 2001



	The October 22, 2001, edition of the New York Times, page A19, ran

an

	obituary notice concerning the death on October 12 of Edward P.

Radford,

	MD. I believe that he was the controversial Chair of the BEIR III

committee

	who insisted that a linear dose-response relationship described the

	low-dose atomic bomb survivor cancer-risk data even though others on

that

	committee disagreed.



	Otto



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