Re: Radon, smoking and LNT

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

John,

    By what criteria should the badness or goodness of data be judged?

I am reminded of the old adage, "A theory is something that nobody

believes except the person who developed it, while data is something

that everybody believes except the person who obtained it."

    With LNT, we seem to have the reverse situation.





----- Original Message -----

From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

To: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG>; William V Lipton

<liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>; Johansen, Kjell <Kjell.Johansen@nmcco.com>

Cc: Radsafe (E-mail) <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 2:24 PM

Subject: RE: Radon, smoking and LNT





> Ted,

> I think that the issue is that the epidemiologist do

> not think the data is reliable, and cannot demonstrate

> anything.  Whether is proves or disproves the LNT or

> the effects of radon, etc., is secondary to the first

> issue, which is the reliability of the data.

>

> I think you and others are so convinced it supports

> your view that you are missing the first issue.  Bad

> data is bad date.  If the data is bad, it will hurt

> your cause.

>

> P.S. Dr. Cohen, please save time by not replying to

> this message.

>

>

> --- Ted Rockwell <tedrock@CPCUG.ORG> wrote:

> > Bill, I think the concern is that, whereas there is

> > virtually no scientific

> > evidence that low-dose radiation (or low-dose

> > anything else)is harmful, and

> > Cohen's data are fully consistent with the rest of

> > the vast field of

> > toxicology, you and a few others in the radprot

> > field treat Cohen's data as

> > an anomaly that must be explained.

> >

> > The fact is that Cohen's data (and a number of other

> > reports on people in

> > homes with low radon level, without the confounding

> > problems of mines, etc.)

> > show what happens to real people in real homes with

> > low-dose radon.  To the

> > extent that other data are inconsistent with it,

> > they are the anomaly to be

> > explained.

> > . . .

>

> =====

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

>

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