Change in Reward Amount??

["Rad health" <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Is your reward now down from $5,000?  Don





>From: e <blc+@PITT.EDU>

>Reply-To: e <blc+@PITT.EDU>

>To: "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>

>CC: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: RE: Objectivity

>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:45:32 -0500 (EST)

>

>

>On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) wrote:

>

> > Dr. Cohen,

> > I thought such publications already existed?  For example:

> >

> > Brian J. Smith, R. William Field, and Charles F. Lynch

> >

> > Title: Residential 222Rn Exposure and Lung Cancer: Testing the Linear

> > No-Threshold Theory with Ecologic Data

> >

> > Health Physics, 75(1):11-17; 1998

>k

>	--My reward offers have always been for a specific suggestions,

>not for generalized ideas. If a generalized idea is valid, it is

>always easy to come up with a specific suggestion based on it. But there

>is still a further requirement that the suggestion must not be completely

>implausible.

>	For example, in response to the generalized proof that cross level

>bias can invalidate any ecological study, I have proposed explanations

>that would invalidate my study, but they were always completely

>implausible. No one else has proposed a specific example of cross level

>bias that would invalidate my study. For years I have been urgently

>inviting someone to do so.

>	There have been papers offering specific suggestions, but I have

>always shown that it was very highly implausible for them to drastically

>change my results. These papers would have won my reward under present

>ground rules just by having been accepted for publication, but that ground

>rule was made only a year ot two ago.

>

>

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