Re: If you do Science, use the Scientific Method!

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

What you seem to be saying is that if one physician says that a pill

will benefit me, while the consensus of physicians says that this pill

will kill me, I should take the pill.  Not me, thank-you.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Curies forever.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com



BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:



>  In a message dated 9/23/2003 9:41:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,

> michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu writes:

>

>      I think it is good policy to be prudent until we have the

>      clear evidence or a unified and well confirmed model that

>      eliminates this reasonable doubt.

>

> And, I think if the consensus is that we do not know the effects in

> the low dose or low-dose rate region, and those effects could include

> benefits, then it is not accurate to say that assuming harm is

> prudent. Barbara