Aside from the reward issue...

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

I finally read Puskin's response in the HP Journal, and I found it quite interesting.  I do not want to weigh in on the reward issue, but I think it would be informative to also look at deaths due to heart disease in the counties included in the study.  I only suggest this, because it is one more data point (or scatter plot) that could inform the argument with respect to the hypothesis that increased radon levels are positively associated with lower smoking rates.  It seems it would be even more valuable than examing the rate other cancers, since there is at least a theoretical mechanism in place for radon to affect non-respiratory cancers, but not for heart disease.


Barbara