Re: Risks of low level radiation - New Scientist Article

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

> From: "Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>



<snip - some good stuff, But...>



> Indeed many non-smokers get lung cancer and many smokers do not.



Not many non-smokers. And lung cancer before smoking was very small. Another

nail in the radon-causes lung cancer coffin!



<snip>

> That would be just as hard  as proving Cohen's Radon studies are right,

> given the possible existence of unknown mysterious confounding factors.



As in a previous note, can any confounding factor adjust for a discrepancy

between the whole set and itself :-)



Regards, Jim



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