Re: Radon Health Hazard, Myth or Reality?

[John Goldsmith <gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>]

In due course, I shall.
          John Goldsmith

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Bernard L Cohen wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, John Goldsmith wrote:
> 
> >      In comparison to Dr. Cohen, the authors, such as Samet and Radford
> > and Lundin and Whittemore and Jorgenson and Axelson, all of whom are
> > competent in epidemiology, have done most careful work in dealing with
> > confounding. All of them have dealt explicitly with smoking, for example,
> > which, with his data sources, was difficult for Dr. Cohen.               
> > 
> >   John Goldsmith
> 
> 	--I have done a tremendous amount of careful work on confounding
> in my study including now over 500 potential confounding factors. I
> treated confounding by very powerful techniques. In my treatment of
> smoking, I showed that the correlation with smoking required to explain
> any substantial part of the discrepancy with theory is completely
> implausible. I consider this to be an extremely powerful treatment. If
> Goldsmith has a not implausible suggestion of what is wrong with my study,
> why doesn't he offer it, preferably in a letter to the Editor
>