Re: RE: The Ultimate Hormesis Paper

[niton@mchsi.com]

Ruth, 



I would love to see your analyses.  If you believe you have valid concerns, 

please send a letter to the editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology 

http://aje.oupjournals.org/ detailing your concerns rather then some off 

handed remark that you could not reproduce our results.  



  The results have been reproduced (in fact, the linear dose response was 

slightly stronger in their analyses) by others including the NCI and Health 

Canada and will likely appear in print in the coming year.  



Bill Field









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Ruth stated - 



I thought the study looked interesting.  I thought the Iowa study was 

interesting, also, though by spreadsheeting and graphing the published results 

I  could not reproduce the claimed correlation.  But I have dropped the effort 

just because I am busy with other things. 

> You know, i did not realize that my statement could be misinterpreted so 

> readily.  I do not support submitting the paper for publication because it 

> appears to support hormesis (which i have considerable doubts about myself) but 

> because it seems to be an interesting study that is ready for peer review.  If 

> there are obvious flaws in the method, peer review should find them. If peer 

> review doesn't find them, and the paper is published with obvious flaws, I am 

> sure the RADSAFE community will be down on the authors in a minute.

> 

> Moreover, I have seen several epidemiological papers in which either there was 

> no correction for age mentioned or an age correction was claimed but the method 

> of correction was not described.

> 

> I thought the study looked interesting.  I thought the Iowa study was 

> interesting, also, though by spreadsheeting and graphing the published results I 

> could not reproduce the claimed correlation.  But I have dropped the effort just 

> because I am busy with other things.  

> 

> Ruth

> -- 

> Ruth F. Weiner

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 505-856-5011

> (o)505-284-8406

> 



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