[ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy"

Mon Nov 26 10:22:16 CST 2007

RE: Sharks/Risk perception

An interesting stat on causes of death and perception of those risks.

For every person worldwide killed by a shark, about 10  people are killed by 
coconuts falling on their heads while they sit on the beach [ie: afraid to 
go into the water for fear of shark attacks perhaps?? :-) ], and 1.0 E- xx?? 
die from radiation accidents or effects  Ironic.

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Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy"

True, but is there a well funded, propaganda supported movement afoot to
eliminate sharks?

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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:50 AM
To: Steven Dapra; Bob Cherry; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear
Energy"

It is usually more complex than numbers and

statistics.  Consider how many people who are killed

by sharks.  Now ask the first 10 people you meet if

they are afraid of sharks.

We are all familiar with cars, electrical outlets,

turning on the gas stoves.  So why should we be afraid

of them?

These are not new issues.

--- Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:

> Nov. 21

>

>          Perhaps this is the journalists' way of

> showing us they don't know

> enough elementary arithmetic to calculate

> proportions.  (Can anyone devise

> a more plausible explanation?)

>

> Steven Dapra

>

>

> At 06:14 PM 11/21/07 -0600, Bob Cherry wrote:

> >Subject opinion article in the New York Times

> quotes our Bernie Cohen who

> >researched stories by the New York Times about

> different types of accidents

> >between 1974-78 (prior to Three Mile Island):

> >

> >On an average, there were 120 entries per year on

> motor vehicle accidents,

> >which kill 50,000 Americans each year; 50 entries

> per year on industrial

> >accidents, which kill 12,000; and 20 entries per

> year on asphyxiation

> >accidents, which kill 4,500; note that for these

> the number of entries,

> >which represents roughly the amount of newspaper

> coverage, is approximately

> >proportional to the death toll they cause. But for

> accidents involving

> >radiation, there were something like 200 entries

> per year, in spite of there

> >not having been a single fatality from a radiation

> accident for over a

> >decade.

> >

> >Another problem, especially in TV coverage, was use

> of inflammatory

> >language. We often heard about "deadly radiation"

> or "lethal radioactivity,"

> >referring to a hazard that hadn't claimed a single

> victim for over a decade,

> >and had caused less than five deaths in American

> history. But we never heard

> >about "lethal electricity," although 1,200

> Americans were dying each year

> >from electrocution; or about "lethal natural gas,"

> which was killing 500

> >annually with asphyxiation accidents. (Bernard

> Cohen, "The Nuclear Energy

> >Option," pp. 58-59.)

> >

> >

> >

> >The opinion article:

>

>http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/do-not-read-this-if-yo
u-are

> >-anti-nuclear-energy/

>

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