RE: Deaths from radon in U.S.

["Jim Muckerheide" <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>]

No scientist, not even BEIR VI committee believes this dreck. Committee

appointed by biased NAS Board, "staff" wrote it for EPA funds, a couple

on the committee push the agenda, and others "get along, go along" to

keep getting good appointments and funding. Alberts wouldn't ackownledge

an objection or critical review - figured he knows also. 



When some committee questioned, always stress "the range of results

includes zero!" as though to show some integrity. 



BEIR VI was only established to trash Cohen, and does without

considering any of the data, with NONE of the other substantial studies,

because Cohen's case was getting attention in Congress. Just damage

control for BEIR IV. Committee knew that going in!



Jim

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-----Original Message-----

From:	Rad health

Sent:	Wed 16-Jan-02 6:55 PM

To:	RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Cc:	

Subject:	Deaths from radon in U.S.



Could you please give the exact URL for the 19,000 cancer deaths?





Ruth,



Actually 18,600 if you use the central estimate



Don Smith



SEE:



http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/beirvi1.html





On the basis of the epidemiologic evidence from miners and understanding

of 

the genomic damage caused by alpha particles, the committee concluded

that 

exposure to radon in homes is expected to be a cause of lung cancer in

the 

general population. According to the committee's two preferred risk

models, 

the number of lung-cancer cases due to residential radon exposure in the



United States was projected to be 15,400 (exposure-age-duration model)

or 

21,800 (exposure-age-concentration model). This indicates a

public-health 

problem and makes indoor radon the second leading cause of lung cancer

after 

cigarette-smoking.









>From: RuthWeiner@aol.com

>To: healthrad@hotmail.com, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from

other 

>cancers

>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:39:00 EST

>

>Could you please give the exact URL for the 19,000 cancer deaths?  I

tried

>the AARST web page and it dumped m,e to Oncolink, from which I couldn't



>seem

>to get anywhere.

>

>Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>ruthweiner@aol.com





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