Re: NCRP bias?

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

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jerry Cohen wrote:



>     I wonder if NCRP is really capable of giving your work an unbiased

> evaluation. Keep in mind that for decades NCRP has advocated and supported

> policies predicated on LNT, the most egregious being ALARA. Although the

> individuals making the evaluation may all be fine scientists, it is simply

> not consistent with human nature for NCRP to admit that they have been

> wrong for all those years.



	--It is inconceivable to me that any scientist who carefully

studies my work can disregard it. I recognize that to many

epidemiologists it is a religious conviction that an ecological study

cannot be used to test a theory, but the NCRP committee includes

physicists who should not be influenced by that religious conviction.



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