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Re: If you do Science, use the Scientific Method!
This may seem silly, but is it possible that the EPA
people who drafted the NESHAPS did not understand that
the LNT was a regulatory "tool" and not scientific
fact?
--- Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com> wrote:
> Sept. 24
>
> This is written to answer one of Bill Lipton's
> postings of the 24th
> (reproduced below).
>
> Kjell Johansen wrote:
>
> "Back in the early '90s, the EPA's NESHAPS analyses
> for regulating
> airborne radionuclides was published in the Federal
> Register. The opening
> paragraphs made it clear that the analyses was based
> on LNT. It was
> presented as being the truth. There was no hint
> that it was merely a
> prudent approach to regulation."
>
> Bill wanted to know what Kjell's point was, and I
> wrote:
>
> "My guess is that Kjell's point is that LNT was
> 'presented as being the
> truth,' despite the fact that LNT has not been
> proven to be true. I would
> say that NESHAPS was being deceitful by presenting
> LNT as the truth,
> instead of stipulating that it was merely a prudent
> approach to regulation.
>
> Bill Lipton wrote:
>
> "While I welcome your opinions, I get very
> suspicious when one party
> claims that anyone who disagrees with his point of
> view is 'deceitful.'
> Perhaps, it would be useful to post what, exactly,
> about NESHAPS you
> consider 'deceitful.' "
>
> Bill, if you will read the above-quoted portion of
> my posting your
> question will be answered. To reiterate, it was
> "deceitful" of NESHAPS to
> present LNT as the truth instead of stipulating that
> it was merely a
> prudent approach to regulation. To go further, it
> was "deceitful" of
> NESHAPS to present LNT as being true when LNT has
> not been proven to be true.
>
> To be deceitful means 'having a tendency or
> disposition to cause to
> accept as true or valid what is false or invalid.'
> Synonyms are
> "deceptive," "misleading," or "dishonest." (This
> definition is derived
> from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary; 1974.)
>
> LNT is not true. You might choose to split hairs
> and say it isn't false
> either, and technically you might be correct. The
> fact remains that LNT
> has not been proven true, therefore it was deceitful
> of NESHAPS to behave
> as though it is true.
>
> Steven Dapra
> sjd@swcp.com
=====
"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."
Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. U.S., 1928
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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