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RE: Outdated Love Canal reference from Weiner - Dapra is..
One of the points made in the article was that the study was done 10 and 20 years after exposure, precisely in order to encompass a latency period.
In my extreme scientific naivete, I was assuming that peer review was still the "gold standard" for science, and that the peer-reviewed portion of SCIENCE magazine -- the Reports section -- was still considered a first-class scientific journal (I am sure AAAS wuld be surprised to hear otherwise).
I might point out that, in 1981, I, too, was surprised by the articles findings, but I accepted it as as a solid, well-documented study. But then, I didn't have an agenda. And actually, I don't now. I haven't seen anything in SCIENCE (or any other peer-reviewed journal that I read) that contradict's the study's findings. Can someone point me to a PEER-REVIEWED study in a reputable scientific journal that refutes the 1981 study I cited?
Ruth Weiner
In a message dated 3/30/2004 4:24:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Carl Speer" <rtrs@cox.net> writes:
>I think the point that Mr. Ricciuti makes that this is an old document
>is valid. Most cancers have a latency period of greater than 15 years
>except for leukemia and some other exceptions. Just because cancers
>were not significant then (20 years ago) doesn't mean there is not
>statistically significant numbers now.
>
>Carl Speer
>Realtimerad.com
>
>"A waste is a terrible thing to mind"
>
>
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>
>Just because it is old, doesn't mean it is incorrect. Your birth
>certificate, Einstein's theories, the Bible are old, but accurate.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Outdated Love Canal reference from Weiner - Dapra is..
>>
>> Dear Ruth Weiner:
>> The reference is still outdated by 20+ years...Peer review or not.
>> Regards, Louis Ricciuti
>> ***
>> Ruth Weiner writes--
>> > The article in science is well-researched, peer-reviewed, offers no
>> > "opinions", >
>> > offeres only observations, and is in every respecty a credible,
>creditable scientific > publication. That's what peer review is all
>about.
>>
>> > I am not going to respond to this issue any more on radsafe. That
>> > doesn't mena > > that Mr. Ricciutti's stuff has had any influence on
>
>> > my thinking. Quite the cotnrary.
>>
>> > RuthF. Weiner, Ph. D.
>> > ruthweiner@aol.com
>>
>> Yikes, AND I THANK YOU!
>>
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