RE: Re: Cohen's Fallacy

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

The letter has been submitted.





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

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

>CC: Jack_Earley@RL.GOV, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu, motnivas@YAHOO.COM, 

>tjsav@LYCOS.COM

>Subject: RE: Re: Cohen's Fallacy

>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:53:47 -0500 (EST)

>

>

>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rad health wrote:

>

> > I agree.  It is also not our job to explain your paradox.  I also agree 

>that

> > it is your job to determine the correlations and take them into account 

>in

> > the analyses.  Unfortunately, you have not attempted to determine the 

>inter

> > county correlations, but rather make assumptions about what they are.

>

>	--You do not understand the "Scientific Method". There is no

>requirement that everything must be explained -- that will never happen.

>But there is a requirement that when an observation contradicts the

>prediction of a theory, that contradiction must be explainable -- note the

>word is "explainable", not "explained". If the contradiction is not

>explainable, the theory must be abandoned.

>	Note that there is no requirement on the method of analysis.

>Anyone is entitled to his own method of analysis and you have no right to

>tell me how to do the analysis. But the contradiction between theory and

>observation must be explained. You do have a right to point out an error

>in my method of analysis, but you haven't done so.

>	If you can point out an error in my analysis of the Lubin effect,

>referring to my paper in Health Physics 75:18-22;1998, being explicit,

>I will be glad to discuss it with you. Otherwise, I will not bother to

>reply further to your messages. Again I invite you to submit a letter to

>Health Physics on your attacks.

>





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