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[John Jacobus]

John,
And how credible are these numbers?

--- John Ahlquist <john.ahlquist at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 
> I've seen estimates that 25,000 to 250,000
> unnecessary abortions were  
> performed in Europe following Chernobyl because of
> radiophobia.  Even  
> if those numbers are way too high, it is likely that
> the radiophobia  
> cost many more lives than the accident itself. 
> Teller is correct that  
> fear is more toxic than the actual exposure.
> 
> The antis need to consider the effects of their
> actions when they  
> strive mightily [and often successfully] to foment
> fear of radiation.
> 
> John Ahlquist
> 
> 

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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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