[ RadSafe ] Makhijani picocuries (IEER letter to EPA)

[bobcherry at cox.net]

> Thank goodness someone is asking the EPA to recognize the
> reproductive toxicities of heavy metal radionuclides.

Mae West said, "Goodness has nothing to do with it."

> Ordinary people
> on the street where I live overwhelmingly report, 5-to-1,
> that they know that uranium and plutonium cause mutations
> and increased incidence of birth defects.  If the
> teratogenicity of radioactive heavy metals is so deeply
> ingrained in common knowledge, then why don't any
> regulations reflect it at all?  It would be such a bad and
> unfunny parody if it weren't reality -- so bizarre!

Ordinary people believe in ghosts, goblins, extrasensory perception, magic, and intelligent design, too. So should our regulations reflect these, too? Or should we let Salsman's neighbors write our regulations from now on?

Bob C