Re: "Scientific misconduct" in gov't data

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 05:35 PM 12/17/1999 -0600, Jim Muckerheide wrote:
>Group,
>
>Would they also pursue "scientific misconduct" if the scientists
>"cooked" the data to meet EPA demands, like radiation health effects
>data/scientists? (recall Otto Raabe's email on the data falsified by
>Mays and Lloyd for BEIR IV).
>
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December 20, 1999
Davis, CA

I must object that I did NOT and would NOT suggest the Mays and Lloyd
"falsified" any data. Ray Lloyd is a gentleman and honest scientist, as was
Chuck Mays. What they did was present the real data in a way that happened
to make it appear to be linear because the region below 1 Gy was grouped
with higher dose data. This is not an unusual nor dishonest approach. The
important point is that data that look linear over a range of doses may not
actually precisely represent the intermediate, low, or high ends of the
dose range because of the effect of data grouping or imprecision.

Otto
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