Re: Radon and lung cancer

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, R. William Field wrote:

> Dr. Cohen, 
> 
>  Please provide more specifics to demonstrate why the ecologic study I
> mentioned  has erroneous data and how that contributed to the authors
> paradoxical findings.  The authors themselves have been trying to find an
> answer for their absurd findings for years and have been unable to do so.
> I find it interesting that you feel you solved their paradox in 2 days by
> saying they have erroneous data when the authors of that study have been
> searching for the answer for years.
> 

	-There is some confusion here. I haven't yet gotten to the library
to look up the ecological study you mentioned, so I obviously have made no
comment on it. 
	The comment you refer to, repeated below, was on the Fairbank
observation of a single quark. It was in a reply to a message from
Scherer.

> At 01:51 PM 3/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >	Erroneous data is a plausible explanation in the case you mention.
> >If someone can offer a plausible suggestion for  how all three sets of  
> >data I use, our own, EPA's, and data collected by various states, can be
> >erroneous, and still agree with one another, that would be sufficient.  
> >	

Bernard L. Cohen
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