[ RadSafe ] CNN Gives Asaf Durakovic Star Billing How ro contesttilted reporting?

Dan W McCarn hotgreenchile at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 20:16:04 CST 2007 

Dear Dr. Parthasarathy, Prof. Cohen and RADSAFErs:

In 1999 I went head-on with an environmental group who offered testimony to
the NRC contesting a uranium mining license.  The group had taken a figure
from one of my publications, but changed the title and explanation to suit
their needs but gave me credit.  I wrote an affidavit which included the
original IAEA publication and the NRC Hearing Officer threw out the
testimony of the group with prejudice after finding numerous intentional
misrepresentations.  When they appealed to an US Appellate court, the issue
was thrown back to the NRC and the group was fined $250,000 for their
actions.

In 2002, I attended a public hearing in Farmington, New Mexico in which the
same group had "published" a new paper showing why U mining was so bad, but
they had again used my figure and again changed the title and explanation
but assigning me credit.  I reminded the 300 or so persons present about the
NRC finding and fines, and that I was completely prepared to sue him for his
intentional misrepresentation of my work.  He shut-up completely and uttered
not a single word further (at least at that meeting).

Unfortunately it takes repeated efforts to stand-up against these
self-proclaimed "experts" and the only way to silence them is through the
courts. Shame never works since they believe that "the means justifies the
ends."

The media is there to sell their own product, so truth frequently takes a
beating.

Dr. Parthasarathy, please give my regards to Dr. Shri Syed Fareeduddin if
you see him.  I hope that he is doing well!  He was my Division Director
(Nuclear Fuel Cycle) while I was at the IAEA.

Dan ii

Dan W McCarn, Geologist
Albuquerque & Houston


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of parthasarathy k s
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 19:27
To: Bernard L. Cohen; Roger Helbig
Cc: radsafelist
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] CNN Gives Asaf Durakovic Star Billing How ro
contesttilted reporting?

Dear Professor Cohen,

Myths and the reality! How can one counter tilted reporting and bias of TV
channels and media? Impotent rage does not help either! The recent response
of a Commissioner of NRC to Mr Zimmerman's article in the New York Times on
Polonium poisoning is published as an "opinion" of a few lines length! The
Commissioner's cogent response clearly rebutts some of the core premises of
Mr Zimmerman.

We must flood all media with the type of information you have; not many may
remember or may even know that we are ingesting that many uranium atoms
daily! As a matter of fact, I had recommended your book titled "Before It's
too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy"  as soon as I read it. It
is really a source book. Some well thumbed copies are available with us now.

A few years ago, a free lancer from India wrote an article in the
ChristianScience Monitor totally distorting some statements made by the then
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. The stringer took an
appointment with us before writing the piece. He called it off at the last
minute as he was busy else where. We offered another chance. He did not turn
up. Still he wrote the article with many inaccurate statements. 

I contested his views word by word. CSM ignored it. I sent a reminder
without success. I got the piece published in the dispatches of  the Press
Trust of India, India's premier news agency. Even though they gave enough
space to vent my ire, they also did not include my statements which would
have undermined the competence and credibility of the CSM stringer!

The wag is now attached to an Indian TV news channel and is involved in
sting operations!

Best regards

K.S.Parthasarathy Ph.D


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----- Original Message ----
From: Bernard L. Cohen <blc+ at pitt.edu>
To: Roger Helbig <rhelbig at california.com>
Cc: radsafelist <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 10:00:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] CNN Gives Asaf Durakovic Star Billing

    Note that the average person ingests a million trillion (1 E18) 
atoms of uranium every day

Roger Helbig wrote:

>http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMail
ToID=1935309271
>
>In this video, he claims that even one atom of Depleted Uranium remains a
threat to the soldier for life // one atom. 
>Durakovic is clearly not what CNN believes him to be, but he has been
introduced to them by Herbert Reed and Gerard Matthew, two of the seven
soldiers who sense that there is gold in uranium, or who have been pushed to
that point by misinformation from the NoMoreDU group in New York and
Durakovic with Gerdes.  If you want to comment on this video, please, do so
and let CNN know that they need to dig a lot deeper about the people that
they let star in this little caper.  
>
>Roger Helbig
>
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