[ RadSafe ] NAS "impartiality"

[John Jacobus]

How did you become an epidemiologist when you did not
join the Public Health department?  How many studies
have you done?

If you are an epidemiologist and are an expert at
expert at manipulating data, how do I know that you
did not manipulate the data to support a hometic
effect?


--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Epidemiologists (like me) should be expert at
> manipulating data for predetermined conclusion.
>  
> The subservience to political, BORG job protection
> rather than public protection, much less protection
> of individuals, is why I did not join a Public
> Health department.
>  
> Red flag, indeed!
>  
> Howard Long MD MPH
> 
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, epidemiologists cannot be impartial? What test
> should they use to determine membership?
> 
> Is the problem with the membership or the
> conclusion,
> as it does not meet what some believe?
> 
> --- garyi at trinityphysics.com wrote:
> 
> > No, I think your right. The head of the committee
> > was an epidemiologist, right? That 
> > should throw up a red flag on any study of low
> level
> > radiation.
> > 
> > -Gary Isenhower
> > 
> > On 30 Jun 2005 at 9:54, 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Is anyone familiar with how the National Academy
> > of Science (NAS)
> > > selects members for its study panels? It seems
> to
> > me that by judicious
> > > selection of members, almost any predetermined
> > conclusion can be
> > > attained. The expert committees can reference or
> > ignore any material
> > > they choose. They typically compile a massive
> > volume summarizing what
> > > they have chosen to review and formulate
> > conclusions supposedly based
> > > upon their review. Maybe I just don't get it,
> but
> > from the few NAS
> > > studies I have attempted to understand, it was
> > almost impossible to
> > > track how the conclusions were reached from the
> > material reviewed. I
> > > suspect the whole process is largely arbitrary,
> > but perhaps someone
> > > can straighten me out. Jerry Cohen
> 
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a
> new idea and never shrinks back to its original
> proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
> 
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com
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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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