Re: Koop and radon

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Radhealth.

Longevity and prosperity are as surely delayed now by  simplistic authoritarian

"agreement" that radiation causes cancer, as centuries ago that the earth was

flat. Truth will triumph.



Both are obviously true - for selected parts of the distance or quantity

spectrums, compared with the variability within.



What does unselected preponderance of current data suggest will be the cost of

error of the second kind (NOT supplying needed diagnosis of lung cancer or NOT

enabling supplemental radiation to =  locations with lower cancer rates)?

Authorities will change, with our help.

Optimistically

Howard Long



Rad health wrote:



> Dr. Cohen,

>

> I don't understand your point.  If it was made directly from him or his

> office, it had his support and blessing didn't it?  The EPA, The U.S.

> Surgeon General, NIOSH, The American Lung Association, The American Cancer

> Society, The World Health Organization, The Consumers Union, The National

> Research Council's Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation

> and The American Medical Association all agree that residential radon

> exposure is a risk factor for lung cancer.

>

> >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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