RE: LNT/Radon "Debate"

[Free Spirit <FRANK@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

>From: JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
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>It's telling when substantive work like Dr. Cohen's, and others, must go thru
>the fires of hell to get published, when people like Wing can get junk-science 
>published in JAMA and EPA can get yet another nonsense mathematical projection 
>from miner data published on "a moments notice" in J Nat Cancer Inst ...

	Anybody remember Sternglass and his proof that Strontium-90 in milk was
	the cause for a glitch in the downward trend in the infant mortality
	curve some 20-odd years ago? He conviently didn't bother to correct 
	his data for minor items such as the influenza epidemic of the 1910s.

	Eventually real science prevails, but only if the real scientists
	have the courage to stick to theories that are not politically popular
	at the time, or undermine the cause of any entrenched bureaucracy. The
	"scientists" on the losing end tend to yell louder, and then involve
	the general population in their debates. 

	Remember that Thomas Edison invented the electric chair to show people 
	how DANGEROUS AC electricity was, as compared to his pet, DC. Scientists
	like Steinmetz eventually prevailed, and tinkerers like Edison, (IMHO he
	was not a scientist,) had their theories subjected the final evaluator.

	So please, in this forum, lets keep things open. I'll try my best to 
	keep an open mind, and try to ignore the messenger and only look at the 
	message. In return I only ask that we keep the 	passions out of the 
	discussions, before we get to the Martins and the Coys level.

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