Re: Article: Lung cancer screening raises OR LOWERS lung cancerrisk

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

Good point, Barbara. We need to get people who know specialties regulating them.



A Fire Chief has been appointed head of the CA Dept of Forestry, following the environmentalist politician blocking federal retardant tankers for 12 hours and resulting in 2,000 homes and 12 + lives lost in San Diego. If only practicing physicians had authority in Medicare and HMOs!



Next in radiation regulation - reactor operators and physicists regulating waste disposal?



Howard Long  

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  In a message dated 7/1/2004 12:10:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM writes:

    Actually, you don't have to convince me.  You have to

    convince the regulators and authorities.  How are you

    doing at that?

  Technically speaking, it's mostly the politicians and non-technical political agency appointees or civil service policy wonks (who often do not have real scientific degrees) that require "convincing."  Since they're not really pre-disposed to understanding any of this "science stuff," it's going to be a long, hard, uphill walk in the fog to try and get them to pay attention long enough to understand the issues.  I think the "regulators" with legitimate education and experience credentials are already on board with balancing the theoretical harms and benefits of various levels of exposure in a manner supported by science and fully embracing the limitations of those scientific results on both ends of the spectrum.



  Barbara L. Hamrick