Questions concerning the Iowa Radon Lung Cancer Study

["Field, R. William" <bill-field@UIOWA.EDU>]

Drs. Seiler and Alvarez,


I share your concerns about upholding the scientific method. 


If your email was directed at me, please feel free as always to respond

directly to me at

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Also, my address was at the bottom of the email you forwarded. Other

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Regards, Bill Field




At 01:37 PM 01/30/2002 -0700, Fritz A. Seiler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>         OK, my patience has worn out!
>
> I thought that we were a community
>
> of scientists and as such would try to follow the Scientific Method
>
> as
>
> well as possible. Not completely, just as well as possible.  For
>
> Joe
>
> Alvarez and myself that has always been the "Guiding Light". [
>
> :-) ]
>
>
>         Joe and I were just discussing
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> our draft of a Letter to the
>
> Editor that we will get out shortly and we got to a simple question
>
> that
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> nobody seems to address explicitly. So let me ask this simple
>
> scientific
>
> question from the IOWA proponents:
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>        " What are the complete results
>
> of your work, and what do you
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> think that a risk assessor can do with them?  Also, is that all
>
> he
>
> needs?"
>
>
> I would really like to get that answer straight from the horses
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> mouth!
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Fritz
>
>
> --
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>
>  " The American Republic will endure until the day
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> Congress
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>  discovers that it can bribe the Public with the Public's
>
> money."
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R. William Field, M.S., Ph.D.
College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health
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University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa  52242

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