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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thanks for posting that, and the link to the newer paper.

I'll take a look.

82 posted on 04/05/2007 12:17:54 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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To: M. Dodge Thomas

BTW, I’m perfectly willing to acknowledge that there is a lot of questionable use of “science” as inputs into public policy decisions. Residential asbestos and increasingly residential radon abatement efforts are expensive public health initiatives undertaken on the basis of IMO very questionable assumptions about the relevance of data collected in industrial settings to the lives of ordinary citizens. And a lot of relevant information gets disregarded – on both sides of the ideological spectrum – as a result of a combination of ignorance and ideological bias, for example IMO exaggerated concerns about the health effects of DU ammunition on parts of the left, or the decades of denials of the link between smoking and cancer on parts of the right, are examples.


92 posted on 04/05/2007 5:39:34 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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