Cohen's Ecologic Nonsense

["Thomas Jones" <TAJ@law.com>]

I have been following this thread for years and 

this will be my only post.



This topic does matter very much.  There are 

some people like Dr. Cohen who appear to be 

trying to use the health effects of radon to 

defeat the validity of the linear non threshold 

theory. Why would anyone use such a weak 

scientific method to try to defeat or prove 

anything.  No wonder the antinuclear group and 

middle of the road HPs laugh at this list as the 

soap opera of the HP world.  If antinuks ever 

tried to perform an ecologic study to prove the 

LNTT, they would ridiculed beyond belief on this 

list.  



 I have read in the book Radon's Deadly 

Daughters that many feel, including Dr. Cohen, 

that if the LNTT is shown not to be valid for 

radon, it can be inferred that it is not valid 

for radiation in general. Next, I imagine the 

push would be to do away with chemical standards 

at their existing level.  



Dr. Cohen is a known apologist for the nuclear 

industry and general on the board of directors 

of such lofty organizations like Radiation 

Science and Health whose sole purpose is to 

promote raising the safty standards we currently 

have.  How can Dr. Cohen have a non biased view 

while performing research with all this baggage?



Dr. Field, you may mean well trying to debate 

this subject in an open forum, but you must be 

naive.  This is not about science.  Most of the 

active members of the list care little about 

science.  It is too bad more of the quiet 

majority does not make their views known.  I 

know a lot of HPs who think radon is a serious 

threat that should not be ignored.  It is 

interesting that in the United States, the 

majority of their radiation exposure comes from 

radon, but yet the Hs on the list want to 

minimize it effects.  Wonder why?



If people will not even take the time to read a 

scientific paper, they are not worth wasting 

time trying to teach them epidemiology 101.

They want everything spoon fed and fail to try 

to grasp concepts out of their area of focus.



This is an excellent topic for a debate, but 

unfortunately the wrong location.



Thomas Jones



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