[ RadSafe ] Re: Change of topic: example of how news stories affect the public

[John Jacobus]

Sad story, but an old one.  Did they win the law suit?

--- Sandy Perle <sandyfl at cox.net> wrote:

> John,
> 
> YOUR QUESTION:
> 
> Sandy, Do you have any examples of how these story
> affect the
> public.  Sure, they may "tick" you and others off,
> but
> exactly who, besides the people on this list server
> give a d***?
> 
> MY RESPONSE:
> 
> Two sets of parents who filed a lawsuit in Florida
> (public knowledge), each
> couple with one of their children who developed a
> childhood cancer.  One of
> the children died from that cancer.
> 
> The Tooth Fairy people have held public forums and
> the like in Florida,
> received press there and nationally. 
> 
> As part of those lawsuits, the Sr-90 emissions from
> the FPL plants were
> cited as a culprit. 
> 
> While I do not have proof that the misinformation
> from the RPHP Tooth Fairy
> Project folks was the impetus for their lawsuits,
> they very likely were.
> Reason: those children had the expected background
> Sr-90 in their baby
> teeth, certainly tested by RPHP.
> 
> Besides the tragedy of the one cancer death and the
> one cancer incidence,
> the other tragedy is that these people may have been
> given false hope that
> the cause of those cancers was Sr-90 via the baby
> teeth collection and
> analysis efforts of the RPHP people.
> 
> Such lawsuits were predicted by some of us... 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sandy
> 
>
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