Re: Re: Award

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

On Thu, 8 May 2003 epirad@mchsi.com wrote:



> Dr. Cohen,

>

> With all due respect, in your regard to your statement below that, "My official

> offer stated that the publication was to be in Health Physics, after February

> 2000."

>

> You stated less than 1 week ago

>

> (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0304/msg00396.html)

>

> that the publication could be in Health Physics "or an equivalent journal"

>

>

> Lubin's article was after February 2000 and was published in an equivalent

> journal.



	--That was part of my faulty memory of an offer made 3 years ago.

My faulty memory also included the condition that it be a Letter to the

Editor. My official offer was in the following message:



 To: epidemiology discussion group <epidemio-l@CC.UMontreal.CA>,

internet RADSAFE

     <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>

     Subject: Reward offer

     From: Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>

     Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:02:51 -0500 (EST)



        Five years ago, I published a paper in HEALTH PHYSICS

68:157-174;1995 presenting an analysis of lung cancer rates vs average

home radon levels in U.S. counties; it gave indisputable evidence that

county lung cancer rates (with or without correction for smoking) decrease

with increasing radon exposure, a sharp discrepancy with the predictions

of linear-no threshold theory (LNT). For the past five years, I have been

trying to find an explanation for that discrepancy. Several potential

explanations have been offered in papers published in HEALTH PHYSICS, but

in each case detailed analysis has shown that the numerical parameters

required for the suggestion to explain our discrepancy were completely

implausible. References to these analyses will be provided on request.

  As a further effort to find an explanation, I am offering a $1000

reward to any or all who propose a potential explanation for our

discrepancy that is consistent with LNT. The only requirement is that such

potential explanations be accepted for publication in HEALTH PHYSICS.

Note that this is a process over which I have no influence or control. As

soon as they are published, checks for $1000 will be sent. I will then

analyze the suggestions and submit my analyses for publication in HEALTH

PHYSICS. As noted above, such suggestions have been published several

times in the past, so I look forward to sending out several $1000 checks.





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