Re: The Ultimate Hormesis Paper and LLNL Sunshine

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

Dear Professor Field,

Are you responsible for correcting misuse of your data that could cost

homeowners billions of dollars and great worry? I believe so.



I expect that you will point out to the American Cancer Society (cc me and

Radsafe):

"It is not scientifically justified to extrapolate our finding slightly

higher average radon in homes of Iowa lung cancer cases than in homes of

[partly] matched controls,

to conclude that radon at 4 pCi/l causes lung cancer."



"The lung cancer rate through most of the United States is higher than in

Iowa - and that with a radon level averaging below 1.3 pCi/l. Iowa is a high

1% outlier in home radon exposure."



Howard Long



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

From: <niton@mchsi.com>

To: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>

Cc: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 7:28 AM

Subject: Re: The Ultimate Hormesis Paper and LLNL Sunshine





> Howard,

>

> I find the majority of your postings incomprehensible.

>

> I really can not continue to take the time to respond to such non

substantive

> posts.

>

> Feel free to write a letter the American Journal of Epidemiology if you

feel

> we did not use a valid study design.

>

> http://www.cheec.uiowa.edu/misc/radon.html

>

> Bill Field

> > Does Gary say that at LLNL, "Science is secondary to the agenda"?

> >

> > Bill Field should note that, as his Iowa radon study had "controls" who

were

> > not closely matched ( 35% smokers vs 95% smokers for lung cancer cases),

the

> > LLNL study came up with very different results (no ionizing radiation or

> > sunshine causation suggested for melanoma) when they matched controls

better

> > than the previous study by adding education and work start date.

> >

> > Should Field rematch Iowa controls?

> >

> > Howard Long

> >

>



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