Re: Award offer

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

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Jerry Cohen wrote:



>     To me, your assessment of Puskin's paper seems too kind. Puskin's "analysis

" appears to be little more than a slick attempt to obfuscate its fundamental

 lack of logic.

>     When you cut through all the crap, to buy his conclusions you have to

 accept the notion that  radon levels somehow affect smoking habits.

 I have a bridge I'd like to sell to anyone who finds that  plausible.     Jerry



	--There could be a correlation between radon levels and smoking

prevalence by chance, or due to confounding factors, even if one does not

cause the other. However, in my response I show that even a perfect

correlation does not resolve the issue that Puskin raises. This applies

rregardless of what one assumes about smoking prevalences.



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