[ RadSafe ] BBC Reports "Nuclear workers' cancer risk rise

Bernard Cohen blc+ at pitt.edu
Thu Jun 30 16:02:58 CEST 2005


A Karam wrote:

>There is no way to tell, for example, if the lower-dose groups had more, fewer, or no difference in cancers versus what would be expected.  As the data are reported, there is no way to establish any sort of dose/risk relationship.  Because of this, I'm afraid I didn't learn much from this paper except that the authors were very diligent in collecting data.
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          ---Also, they do not understand statistical uncertainties, 
like the meaning of a standard deviation



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