Re: radon - documentation of exposure histories for Iowa study

Rad health wrote:

> or does Muckerheide's views represent the

> majority of HPs views?

You asked!

I can't tell you what most HPs believe - I can only tell you one.

1. I am reading this thread with interest and "filtration".

2. I believe this IS a very important issue.

3. Just because a person has found a forum of kindred spirits and feels

compelled to try to change what he perceives needs changing and offers

scientific justification to that end - which he logically has pursued

and collected - I will not ignore their comments in favor of another who

is equally committed to an opposing camp (albeit "official")- or not

committed at all. I will simply try to applied what "filters" I can.

In fact - those with an expressed agenda are MUCH easier to filter!

4. I BELIEVE the very notion of biological response to any given agent

as linear, clear down to the smallest amount is ridiculous! Especially

when that agent is and always has been a part of nature.

5. I believe the astute scientist looking towards a promising career

and advancement will NOT ignore the political preferences of funding

agencies.

6. I believe that agencies - once founded - will do whatever is

necessary to continued to exist and be funded.

7. In the higher governmental levels where these funding and existence

decisions are made I believe that ethics is considered contextual and

dynamic. And that continuation and therefore success is always

considered ethical.

8. I believe that when trying to understand the root of any regulatory

element/principle - that "follow the money" is usually the shortest path

to finding the answer.

9. I believe that most of these "arguments" are orthogonal - not enough

listening.

10. I don't believe that Cohen has shown ANY causal relationship or

ever intended to BUT that quite simply, his testing reveals that

WHATEVER the relationship is - it is NOT linear with no threshold.

Because linear is such a mathematically simple and special case that it

can be tested in aggregate. Indeed - terms like man-rem are used to

attempt to assess an aggregate consequence.

11. Censorship would be inappropriate.

What one HP thinks.

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