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Re: Cohen's Fallacy and Doll



Dr. Cohen,



Why not put a formal response to both Lubin's and Field's letter on your 

website?





>From: BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@pitt.edu>

>To: William Prestwich <prestwic@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>

>CC: Rad health <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Cohen's Fallacy and Doll

>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:00:15 -0500 (EST)

>

>	Many thanks. To the best of my knowledge, I have responded in

>print to every attack on my work except for the single case where the

>Editor of Health Physics decided to cut off an exchange by giving them the

>last word.

>

>Bernard L. Cohen

>Physics Dept.

>University of Pittsburgh

>Pittsburgh, PA 15260

>Tel: (412)624-9245

>Fax: (412)624-9163

>e-mail: blc@pitt.edu

>

>

>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, William Prestwich wrote:

>

> > Dear Dr. Cohen,

> > 	You have the patient of a saint. The real problem is not that your

> > study is ecological-it is that you are not a member of the club.

> > 	The idea that there exist many references criticizing your work,

> > while not irrelevant, is certainly not of itself sufficient to convince 

>me

> > that you aren't right. It would be interesting to know how many 

>references

> > one could find criticizing Heaviside's introduction of step and delta

> > functions.

> > 	Hang in there.

> > Bill Prestwich

> >

> >

> >

>





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