Re: Offers and Answers

[garyi@trinityphysics.com]

From:           	"John Wong" <Wong@attorney.zzn.com>

Date sent:      	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:49:51 -0500

To:             	radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject:        	Offers and Answers

Send reply to:  	"John Wong" <Wong@attorney.zzn.com>



Dear John,



Please turn off the giant blue font.



I suggest to you and others who wish to discredit Cohen that you change your tactics.  

Irrefutable evidence is what wins in a scientific debate.  By hurling insults and abuse, 

you are merely annoying the group you wish to win over.



He says (I paraphrase), "Here is a link to my figures showing why your argument is not 

correct."



The proper response should be (in this milieu), "Here is our rebutal to your arguments."  

Resorting to things like, "You owe us $1000 because we got a paper published," is, in 

my opinion, less than par.



The fact that some opponents of Cohen have abandoned rational arguments in favor of 

mudslinging strongly suggests that they have nothing rational to say.



At least I can thank you for not changing the thread title to something insulting, as 

others have done, to their discredit.



-Gary Isenhower



"When I have the facts, I argue the facts. When I have the law, I argue the law. 

When I don't have either, I yell and scream and pound on the table." 









ernard Cohen said today - --I have only responded to insulting 

> accusations made against my personal integrity. How can I do 

> otherwise? What do you suggest I do?

> ------------------------------------

> Dear Dr. Cohen,  



> 

> What can you do? 

> 

> People will not attack your personal integrity if you live up to 

> offers you make.

> 

>  You stated that you will pay $1000.00 to anyone who gets a 

> publication in the Health Physics Journal suggesting an explanation 

> for your radon ecology findings. This is clearly stated in the 

> archives. This is a written contract that was not rescinded prior to 

> Mr. Puskin's publication.  Therefore, in my opinion you are in 

> breach of contract. Your insistence in waiting until July is a 

> refusal to perform the contract since the paper has been published. 

> 

> If you now say, the publication was limited to letters, you are 

> misrepresenting the contract.  In the case of misrepresentation, Mr. 

> Puskin should be paid as if no misrepresentation had occurred. 

> 

> What can you do? Honor the contract. 

>  

> I am curious, do most people think that the scientific evidence 

> indicates radon in concentrations found in the home causes lung 

> cancer? If so, what is the most convinving evidence. 

> 



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