<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear All, I'm getting rather worried about the tone of some of the replies to my earlier postings on gluten dose and lymphoma etc. Let's get this straight - I am NOT some holy thing called a "Scientist". I'm a fairly ordinary bloke who has been a lab technician in the biological research area MANY years ago, who then transferred to Radiation Safety and took a degree in Health and Safety at Work starting at age 29. This does not make me any sort of prophet. It does make me able to look a statistic in the teeth fairly closely and decide whether I dare trust it or not. Anyone can start on this trail. There are two GREAT books popularising this (fun to read too) called "How to Lie with Statistics" and "How to Take a Chance" by an American author - Darrell Huff. In my course they were required reading BEFORE we started the statistics course. I also vividly remember opening my basic psychology textbook to the chapter "Measurement" to find the heading subtitled "95% of people agree that thay have an above average sense of humour". I do have a wide scientific background (I couldn't do my job otherwise). I am also very highly trained in observation (for the same reason). Everyone has some sort of agenda for any research or reading up. I hope mine's on the side of the angels, in that I worry about some of the fear I see in posts on this list but DON'T assume that that is the whole and look very closely at what I and others actually write. We're only human and human nature gets in the way at times. I'll continue to poke around in the literature as long as it doesn't cost me money to do so and I will report here. Just don't trust me blindly please. I'll get off me soapbox now. Regards David David J Walland University of Bristol Radiation Protection Adviser [log in to unmask] Tel +44 (0)117 928 8323 Fax +44 (0)117 929 1209 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support the Jubilee 2000 movement. Remove the debt burden from third world countries. See http://www.cafod.org.uk/petition.htm