[ RadSafe ] FEAR of chronic low exposure - Chernobyl's lessons

[howard long]

John,
Your tongue-in-cheek is not what will restore sanity to rad waste clean-up,
avoid panic when a dirty bomb hits Washington DC 
(where I'm taking my Nukalert next week), or reassure patients 
who otherwise would die from neglected body scan
(like a DDP director reported at our meeting 2 mo ago).
 
Our "mission is to educate society for the prevention and mitigation of 
- disaster". The 1,000 recent deaths from a Baghdad panic shows 
what your denial of risk from irrational fear, could bring soon in DC.
 
CARE listened not to this MD or to prominent physicists present.
 
Howard Long  

John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
Howard,
Maybe should have spoken up about the benefits or
radiation. I am sure they would have been receptive
to your position as a physcian and expert in
radiation.

--- howard long wrote:

> Yes, John,
> Fear of ANY ionizing radiation is everywhere.
> 
> Here near the LLivermore NL, CARE, Citizens Against
> a Radioactive Environment
> (the name also indicating rejection of natural
> condition contrary to its theology),
> has a vocal, politically shrewd save-the-world
> gaggle, of mutually propagandizing 
> participants fighting nanocuries of Plutonium with a
> monthly newsletter and paid staff.
> 
> I took my PalmRad to a CARE meeting, graciously
> housed in the LLNL Visitor Center.
> I called attention to its clicking. The panel of
> wild eyed fear-mongers ignored it.
> 
> Howard Long
> 
> . . .

+++++++++++++++++++
"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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