Re: The "right" answer

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Oh, we have been down this road before.  I doubt that

the NNSW study was really ignored.  It was cited in

NCRP 136, and has been cited on this list server many

times.  You can certain start with the following, and

follow the treads.



http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0302/msg00087.html



http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/0301/msg00180.html



http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/9704/msg00530.html



Just to be clear, I never associated you with the "LDR

fringe."







--- Jerry Cohen <jjcohen@prodigy.net> wrote:

> 

> >When  epidemiologists question a study, such as the

> Navy

> > Shipyard Nuclear Worker study, they are attacked

> as

> > not believe the "truth."  Of course, they are only

> > scientist who have studied, practiced and reported

> on

> > epidemiological studies.  What do they know about

> the

> > "truth?"  

> 

> John,

>     Interesting--- I was my understanding that the

> NSNW study has been 

> largely ignored, unacknowledged, and not considered

> in radiation 

> policy development, but I was unaware that it had

> been "questioned" 

> by epidemiologists. What aspect of the study was

> questioned: data 

> sources, methodology, calculations, or what?

>     I know that it is relatively easy to discredit

> any epidemiological 

> study (if all else fails, one can always cite

> unknown  unbounded 

> confounding factors), but have seen no such

> critiques of the NSNW 

> study. Specifically, what was said to be wrong with

> that study? 

>     Jerry

> 







=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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