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

[John Jacobus]

Howard,
Good for you!  At least one cannot say you do not
speak up for your convictions.  

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I spoke at CARE as much as I was permitted. 
> The green panel ignored it and proceeded with its
> fearmongering agenda.
> Physicists present had been there before. They did
> not speak then.
>  
> DDP is Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Its
> Directors overlap the 
> Association of American Physicians and Surgeons 
> (promotes private health care, consumer controlled, 
> like HSAs) 
> and  the American Civil Defense Association.
>  
> Howard Long
> 
> 
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Howard,
> I was quite serious. You had an opportunity to speak
> up, but did not? Why did you go the CARE meeting? 
> You want to educate the public, but expect others to
> take the lead. 
> 
> By the way, please spell out what you are talking
> about. What is a DDP? Also, are you saying the a
> physician spoke at the CARE meeting?
> 
> --- howard long wrote:
> 
> > 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 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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+++++++++++++++++++
"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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