AW: [ RadSafe ] BBC reports There is no single cause forGulfWarillness, researchers have concluded

[Stewart Farber]

Rainier,
I'm not sure. Jefferson probably never imagined there would be a media 
presence [TV, newspapers, radio] that  would allow a few [with quite limited 
resources] to manipulate public opinion so easily and disseminate 
misinformation so widely and so quickly.

Stewart

PS: One of my favorite quips/questions:
Q: "Do you know why they call TV a communications medium?"
A: "Because it's neither rare, nor well done."

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Stewart:

I wonder whether Jefferson could have envisaged "tyranny over the minds of 
man" by other than governmental powers.

Apart from this ambiguity I am all with you.

Rainer


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An: radsafe at radlab.nl; Facius, Rainer; John Jacobus
Betreff: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] BBC reports There is no single cause 
forGulfWarillness, researchers have concluded

Regarding radiophobia and exploitation by some of trivial radiation risk:. I 
recall from my stamp collecting days as a child, a wonderful quote by Thomas 
Jefferson  on one of the late 1950s vintage "Champions of Liberty" series
stamps:

"I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the minds 
of man"

Stewart Farber
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John:

You are right in so far as the combination of letters "p-h-o-b-i-a" does not 
occur in this paper.

Yet, I maintain that nevertheless terms used by Durodié like
-- "exaggerated perception of risk",
-- "politics of fear",
-- "demand for blame" pushed by some "resolute few"

do relate and pertain very well also to radiophobia as one of the

-- "illnesses of modernity".

BTW:
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from 
the public purse."(Adlai Stevenson)

Unfortunately, any attempt to prosecute such behaviour as the criminal evil 
which it is would ultimately result in restrictions of freedom of opinion 
and of speech so that we have to live with this evil.

Regards, Rainer




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