Re: Radon, smoking and LNT

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

So, only a physicist can adequately review and

criticize your epidemiological work?



--- BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU> wrote:

> 

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, John Jacobus wrote:

> 

> > So, from the statement

> >

> >  . . . Their

> > > objections were on my methodology rather than to

> my

> > > data. To me, they

> > > were saying that I do not use the normal

> methodology

> > > of epidemiology, which

> > > I certainly have always recognized.

> > >

> >

> > should I conclude that there is no way you will

> accept

> > any critism of your work from epidemiologists?

> 

> 	--I didn't say that. I was responding to the charge

> that the

> listed epidemiologists claimed my data were invalid

> 

>   Isn't

> > this equivalent to inventing your own scheme for

> > solving thermodynamic problems, and then saying

> that

> > other physicists are wrong when they object to the

> > results?

> 

> 	--Any physicist is welcome to invent a scheme for

> solving any

> scientific problem providing he provides ample

> justification for it. Other

> physicists are wrong if they object to the results

> unless they provide

> reasons to question his justification. If his

> results do not agree with

> results obtained by other methods, his justification

> must include

> explaining the reason for this difference. If his

> results do not agree

> with experiments, that would be ample reason for

> rejecting his method.

> 	I don't see why any of this applies to my work.

> 





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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