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

To: "Ted Rockwell" <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 Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:17:57 -0800
Cc: "Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>, "Radsafe" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
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Reply-To: "John Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>
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I'll be interested to see the answers. We had long discussions on this when we wrote it :)!

_______________________
John R Johnson, PhD

idias@interchange.ubc.ca

----- Original Message -----

From: Ted Rockwell

To: John Jacobus ; epirad@mchsi.com ; Stewart Farber

Cc: Richard L. Hess ; Radsafe

Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:21 AM

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

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.

Ted Rockwell

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