>
> Those who feel the EWG report is right or wrong should take some time to study
> it. It is not the "same old thning". It contains the first ever careful,
> actual-data based estimate of exposure of pesticides in surface waters....
I'm late to this discussion.
It must be getting hot...as I've seen at least one posting of typical gender
feminist sarcasm _qua_ intellectual referee-ing.
I maintain a science-oriented agronomy partition on SunSITE.unc.edu in
/pub/academic/agriculture/agronomy.
Whatever the "EWG report" is...I'd like to access an electronic version
of it for depostion in that partition on Sunite.
It must be in *straight* ASCII format--not as WP or WORD or whatever.
I will reformat it to make it gopher-readable, and PostScript printable.
Of course, the "EWG report" will have to have a suitable copyright release
to allow it's reformmating (without changing any content or content order
'cuz I am not in the editing business).
Provided that I receive said electronics document...
I also invite anyone who has something to say as analysis (that is,
on-topic support/detraction...preferably with a few available supporting
references sprinkled in) to submit it for posting in junxtaposition
for World-wide perusal.
> The
> report breaks no ground in risk assessment methodology per se, just in the
> accuracy and science-base of one half -- the estimates of exposure. EPA
> experts welcome the report, and wished they had done it first. It was
> a huge numbers-crunching job. Others will follow, and we will move quickly
> toward even more accurate estimates of exposure. Some people won't like
> the answers, but we have to make a choice as a society. Are we going to
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> base regulations on who can scream loudest or what data tell us. Industry
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> has got to learn to accept the consequences of "good" science when it
> does not cut their way.
That really resonates with me....and from your return address, I assume
I'm addressing the request for an original electronic document to the
correct place.
Please send me your mailing address and I'll send you a reprint that
will make it clear why I an interested in certain points
that have been raised by you, specifically.
I'm not going to be an arbitrar of "facts"...but am willing to place
briefs of a _curia amicae_ type at the disposal of the World.
Authors will have to identify themselves, fully.
I also invite other unsoliticied, non-propaganda works for deposition and
subsequent commentary. I alone will decide whether submitted works
met the requirements as Benbrooke set....annecdotal ramblings and mystical
writings are best submitted to fora that welcome that sort of Editorial
Opinion.
-- Steve Modena AB4EL@Cybernetics.NET * I speak for myself only; anyone knowing me, also knows how true that is *