[ RadSafe ] New Your City Council meets on detectors

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

As we discussed earlier:

 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0803,thompson,78873,2.html?c=1#comments

>From the article:

>After an hour of this, poor Peter Vallone looked shell-shocked. He had planned to fast-track this legislation-in fact, the law was supposed to have been voted on last week-but that was before the critics had heard about it. As the opposition mounted, Vallone pulled the proposed legislation just before the meeting's end and agreed to give it a second look. "When I was first given a briefing only weeks ago, the potential problems did occur to me," he said in a later interview. "But the extent of the opposition, on such short notice, was a bit surprising." 

In other words, it although he recognized that it was a bad piece of legislation, he was willing to inflict it, as long as he didn't have to justify it personally.  

>But don't think Vallone has given up or anything. He and his colleagues will try to accommodate all the concerns when they redraft the bill, he said, but one way or another, the cops are going to have this new power. "No one's going to be completely happy in the end," Vallone said, "but I think the police department gave some very impressive testimony on the stand, and also expressed a willingness to listen to concerns." After all, if you let research scientists and community groups do their jobs, the terrorists will have already won. 


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Rainer.Facius at dlr.de
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:28 AM
To: mccartmj at michigan.gov; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

1) DARPA is not known for funding bogus science.

2) The crux indeed is whether the antioxidant, radical scavenging activity will help in a post-exposure scenario, i.e., when most or all of the initial radicals are gone long ago.

Dr. Rainer Facius
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Aerospace Medicine
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GERMANY
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von Michael McCarty
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 15:10
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

For your enlightenment, entertainment, and any discussion that occur:

http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=10512

Feds fund study of drug that may prevent radiation injury Defense department funds study of nanotube-based drug made at Rice

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