[ RadSafe ] 'The risks of nuclear energy are not exaggerated'

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

>Whilst many in the lists 'might' view these articles superficially, I
still think it is good that this sort of subject  matter can get into
the main media and still retain interest some weeks later (whatever your
view point).

The reason many might view these articles in general, and the one you
linked in particular, to superficial, is that they are extremely
superficial.  The author of this article dismissed someone cited in a
previous article as just promoting his book, but it turns out that the
author himself is writing a book on the subject (which, based on this
article, I have no interest in reading).  The author cherry-picked,
implied causal relationships without support, and misrepresented the
positions of others.  It is a shame that he chose to add heat and noise,
rather than light, to the discussion.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Mark Ramsay
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:40 PM
To: srp-uk at yahoogroups.com; HASNET-RAD at JISCMAIL.AC.UK; Radsafe
Subject: [ RadSafe ] 'The risks of nuclear energy are not exaggerated'

Morning All.

Following on from a previous summary I presented (based on recent
articles in the UK Guardian Newspaper regarding radiation risk etc),
here is the latest to appear in the paper (in response to the Simon
Jenkins initial article).

"The risks of nuclear energy are not exaggerated"

What I find quite interesting is that in the previous articles (which
represented a view that the risks of radiation were over exaggerated),
there were many responses that argued very much against this. Now we
have an article that is written from the other perspective (i.e. risks
are not exaggerated) and will now find many comments arguing against
that too (although it is fair to say there were for and against for each
article).

Whilst many in the lists 'might' view these articles superficially, I
still think it is good that this sort of subject  matter can get into
the main media and still retain interest some weeks later (whatever your
view point).

The article is found at the link below.

http://tinyurl.com/yb2negr 

rgs

Mark


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