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RE: AARST Radon Scientist Claim Nation's Policy a Failure

To: tedrock@CPCUG.ORG, John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>, epirad@mchsi.com, Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>
Subject: RE: AARST Radon Scientist Claim Nation's Policy a Failure
From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:30:25 -0800 (PST)
Cc: "Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>, Radsafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
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Reply-To: John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
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Ted Rockwell <tedrock@cpcug.org> wrote:

Does anyone beside me think that presenting numbers to three significant figures, that vary nearly 100% from lowest to highest, is demonstrating an embarrassing lack of scientific numeracy? Particularly since they are based on "few experimental studies and essentially no human data," to quote NCRP-121.

Remember, Ted, this is not engineering or physics where you can really measure things. It is biology. Even worst, it is epidemiology based on some poor studies.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com

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- RE: AARST Radon Scientist Claim Nation's Policy a Failure
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