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Re: radon - documentation of exposure histories for Iowa study



Don Smith or Don Simmons?  ;-)  



healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM posted with two different names

today.  Anyone else notice? ;-)



~Ruth Sponsler aka Ruth 2



--- Rad health <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Chris,

> 

> I am glad you picked up on that.  I expected at

> least one response from that 

> posting.  I brought up Ray Johnson's expertise in

> radon dose assessment, and 

> Muckerheide says Ray is not experienced enough to

> judge good science, but 

> Dupponte is.  The point I was making about Dupponte

> is that in my view he 

> does favor the views of the Rad Sci and Health group

> as obvious from his 

> posting on their site.  That in itself does not make

> him an expert beyond 

> experts or a bad scientist.  I just think Ray would

> be an objective 

> observer.

> 

> This (dismissal of credibility) is the exact point I

> have been trying to 

> make about Muckerheide's postings.  He dismisses the

> work of Lubin, Samet, 

> Field, Krewski, NCRP, ICRP,EPA, etc etc as junk

> (because it does not fit the 

> findings he would like to see), but no one on the

> listserv dares to question 

> him for fear of attacks.

> 

> I can't believe there are 2000 people on this list,

> who sit there day after 

> day and put up with Muckerheide's postings, without

> questioning the validity 

> of his statements. This will not change until the

> list owner takes control 

> of the list from Muckerheide or does Muckerheide's

> views represent the 

> majority of HPs views?

> 

> 

> Don Simmons

> 

> 

> 

> >From: Chris Davey <chris.davey@cancerboard.ab.ca>

> >Reply-To: chris.davey@cancerboard.ab.ca

> >To: Rad health <healthrad@hotmail.com>

> >CC: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> >Subject: Re: radon - documentation of exposure

> histories for Iowa study

> >Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:40:08 -0700

> >

> >Hi, (I didn't see a signature below)

> >

> >Even if I hadn't known Phillipe Duport as a very

> responsible and dedicated 

> >scientist for many years, I would still comment

> that your dismissal of his

> >credibility, as underlined below, is very

> insulting.  Are all those who 

> >have a different opinion to be written off, purely

> on that basis?

> >

> >Regards (with disappointment)

> >

> >Chris Davey

> >

> >Rad health wrote:

> >

> > > Jim Muckerheide,

> > >

> > > Ray Johnson may not be an epidemiologist, but

> the point was that Ray 

> >knows a

> > > few things about radon exposure assessment.  As

> far as Phillipe Dupont, 

> >he

> > > is a frequent poster of emails on your Radiation

> and Science listserv 

> >and an

> > > known anti LNT proponent.

> > >

> > > <Snip>

> >

> > > ------------------------------------------

> > > Citation: Field RW, Smith BJ, Brus CP, Lynch CF,

> Neuberger JS, Steck DJ,

> > > Retrospective temporal and spatial mobility of

> adult Iowa women., Risk 

> >Anal

> > > 18: 5, 575-84, Oct, 1998.

> >

> >--

> >Provincial RSO / LSO / U-VSO

> >Alberta Cancer Board, Room 4027, 11560 University

> Ave,

> >Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2. (780) 432-8665

> fax 432-8986

> >email: cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca   

> chris.davey@cancerboard.ab.ca

> >pager number (780) 917-2043

> >

> 

> 

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