Re: Risks of low level radiation - New Scientist Article

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET>]

 From: "John Williams" <JohnWi@law.com>



> Dr. Cohen,

> 

> This is my last post on this issue.  You said in a previous post that

> you would look at any area of the U.S. to see if your inverse

> association holds.  You make statements and don't back them up.



Juvenile crap. Bernie has backed-up everything he has ever said on the

subject! Unlike others.



> I just want to again document that you have been asked to do this yet

> again. 



So what. It's been done. (What makes you so arrogant?)



> Why have you not responded to numerous posts and publications

> by Field and others to provide a definitive explanation why your

> inverse association does not hold in Iowa when they used all your

> data, and merely updated your lung cancer incidence data?



Bernie responded to them all. As before, Iowa is the worst state to analyze.

Sounds like you prefer to "select" data.



>The inverse association disappeared when they used better SEER data.



What's better about it?



> If epidemiologists are too believe your findings for the whole country,

> they should hold for a state with the highest radon, finest gradation

> of ecologic units (1/16 of the total units you use) and Iowa only has

> 1% of the U.S. population.



I.e., the weakest relationship, results flop around, especially with very

small studies like Fields et al.  (But still negative correlation! Also true

if you compare it to life expectancy! :-)



> The only answer I saw that you gave was

> that there must be some minority population causing Smith et al

> findings.  I do not find it plausible given the lack of a large

> ethnic minority population in Iowa.  Don't say you can explain it for

> any geographic region when you failed to respond to Field's challenge.



Saying it again doesn't make it true! :-)

 

> John Williams



Jim



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