Re: Koop and radon

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Rad health wrote:



> Dr. Cohen,

>

> I don't understand your point.



	--I understood your message as a challenge to my statement that

Koop did not issue the statement and did not speak up on it at the time.

If you look at the material below, you will see why. Actually, Koop's

failure to speak out was taken by many of those in the radon

measurement industry as a disappointment, because Koop was quite famous at

that time.



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

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

> >CC: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM, hflong@pacbell.net, tm.mohaupt@WRIGHT.EDU,

> >muckerheide@MEDIAONE.NET, internet RADSAFE <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

> >Subject: Re: Iowa GIGO, not Cohen's "Fallacy"

> >Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:32:14 -0500 (EST)

> >

> >	--At least the initial announcement that got all of the publicity

> >-- high on network evening news, front page on newspapers, etc -- was not

> >made by Koop himself. I was heavily involved in the situation at that time

> >and remember it vividly.

> >

> >

> >On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Rad health wrote:

> >

> > > Koop issued the proclamation and in fact has blamed most of the

> >carcinogenic

> > > effects of smoking on polonium.

> >

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

> > > > > What Surgeon General and when, please?  I am afraid I don't remember

> >any

> > > >such

> > > > > pronouncement.

> > > >

> > > >	--It was roughly in September 1988. Koop was the Surgeon-General

> > > >but he did not make the statement; it was issued by his office. It got

> > > >very wide national publicity and served as a tremendous stimulant to

> >the

> > > >radon measurement business, albeit for a short time.

> >

>

>

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