[ RadSafe ] BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Afghan 'health link' to uranium

[Franta, Jaroslav]

Roger,

BBC's "standards" (if any) are rather lax -- see my old Radsafe post at:
http://radlab.nl/radsafe/archives/9910/msg00435.html

.....they may however change their story, if enough people complain (don't hold your breath though!).

Jaro
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of Roger Helbig
Sent: May 2, 2008 8:31 AM
To: Radsafe
Subject: [ RadSafe ] BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Afghan 'health link' to uranium


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7373946.stm

This BBC piece does not measure up to the standards that the BBC is expected
to maintain.  It gives enormous world wide credibility to the speculations
of the anti-depleted uranium crusade and the false measurements of the
Uranium Medical Research Centre and Asaf Durakovic who measured natural
uranium in water and claimed that it was DU.  I urge each of you to write
the BBC and point out the many falsehoods in this piece and to demand a
retraction.  It is even worse than I had imagined that it would be when I
got advance notice on anti-DU Yahoo Group list and the BBC needs to make it
right.  For starters, DU was used very sparingly, if at all in Afghanistan;
there were no large numbers of tanks for targets; the Taliban had at most a
couple of dozen; further, DU is not used in any bomb, so the heavy bombing
of Tora Bora was not with DU.

Thank you.

Roger Helbig

















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