[ RadSafe ] Pseudoscientist & Propagandist Chris Busby - anti-DUactivist --WAS Re: Uranium, gene

Tue Jul 6 13:46:12 CDT 2010

Nuclear Today, Nuclear Tomorrow, Nuclear Forever. Yes Fusion will be a
far better mode of making energy, but Fission is here right NOW and not
a Pie in the Sky idea! If we want the USA to go Green, we must include
Nuclear because neither Solar nor Wind Power (outside of the US Congress
and the Bureaucrats in Washington DC)  will replace Coal in the
foreseeable future. Nothing I know of can replace coal except Nuclear. 

I do agree we need to solve the High level waste issues, but the US was
somewhat on track @ Yucca Mtn until we got derailed by Environmental
Whackos. I have been to Yucca Mtn in the past and I cannot think of a
better place to put High Level Waste. I would have no problem living
next door nor even being a Resident Farmer (RESRAD terminology) next
door to Yucca Mtn. If we want to entertain a terrestrial High Level
Waste site but not Yucca Mtn, then we will never solve the RAM Waste
Issue(s) on any level.

Robert Young

My comments are mine alone and not those of my employer.

>>> On 7/6/10 at 1:13 PM, "Geo>K0FF" <GEOelectronics at netscape.com>
wrote:
Yes, thank heaven for nuclear power plants!

We need more.

George Dowell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart Farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>; 
<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Pseudoscientist & Propagandist Chris Busby - 
anti-DUactivist --WAS Re: Uranium, genetic disease etc...

> Hello list members,
>
> Hope US members are managing to keep their cool today during this
nasty 
> heat wave covering much of the country.  As an aside, thank heaven
for 
> electricity and the widespread availability in the US of air
conditioners, 
> without which many hundreds of excess deaths more would be occuring
now 
> among elderly and ill people.
>
> As some prologue, in August 2003, during a extreme 7 day heat wave 
> centered in France which reached temps up to 104 F, the French
National 
> Institute of Health derived an estimate that 14,800 excess heat
related 
> deaths occured in the elderly due primarily to an absence of air 
> conditioning.
> [REFERENCE:  ^ Robine, Jean-Marie; Siu Lan K. Cheung,
> Sophie Le Roy, Herman Van Oyen, Clare Griffiths, Jean-Pierre Michel,
> François Richard Herrmann (2008). "Death toll exceeded 30,000 in
> Europe during the summer of 2003". Comptes Rendus Biologies 331 (2):

> 171-178. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2007.12.001. ISSN 1631-0691. 
>
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X1F-4RGFYFD-1/2/0aef30c1f652eec5ae76cf628ef78b8b.]

>
> How many recall the excess heat related deaths in France in 2003.
They had 
> enough electricity, but air conditioners were not very common in
France, 
> and the French government [most of which was on summer holiday during

> August]  was very slow to put out guidance for the elderly about
hydration 
> and how to try and keep cool.
>
> Now for a minor rant for a local hot day on Radsafe about radiation 
> related health effects claims.
>
> Readers of the "press release" about the claimed extreme hazards of
DU 
> kindly posted for general info a few days ago by Bjorn Cedervall,
should 
> know some background on  the study author Chris Busby [ be sure not
to 
> confuse Chris with Bruce Busby] . Chris Busby has been well
documented as 
> being a pseudoscientist and crude propagandist, . who has become an 
> anti-DU activist, willing to say anything and distort information in
a 
> seemingly scientific manner to deceive the scientifically challenged

> parties that are his target audience.
>
> Chris Busby has exaggerated his professional work experience to make
his 
> claims seem more credible. Reader beware. The Institutes and
publications 
> he cites, or claims to be a part of, are largely on-line facades for

> anti-nuclear activists. His distorted claims in the Abstract posted,
and 
> in many other instances of a host of cancers being expressed among 
> potenti
ally exposed people in Iraq, Lebanon, or Afghanistan,
immediately 
> to 4 years after DU exposure would be simply funny if they were not
so 
> impactful. Such claims unfortunately are rarely refuted, and prove
able to 
> influence many innocent readers, governments, legislators, and
regulators.
>
> It is astounding how absurd DU  claims are generated and circulated.
Chris 
> Busby has clearly embraced the guidance and techniques of Josef
Goebbels, 
> when Goebbels stated the following in a training speech for his
trainees. 
> Although Goebbels mentions the subject of "political speech", the
written 
> claims of a Busby, or Sternglass, or Mangano, or many other similar
sorts, 
> still have a political speech intent. See the following excerpt of
actual 
> quote from Goebbels:
>
>
> "Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for
average
> minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to
be
> lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful,
> aesthetically elegant speeches..............The point of a political

> speech is to persuade people of what we think
right..................... 
> That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a 
> movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can
conquer the 
> broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually
pleasing. 
> It
> is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths."
>
>
> Goebbels also said regarding the subject of the "Big Lie":
>
>
> *If you tell a lie big enough
> and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
>
> For some background on Chris Busby, and his actions as a disciple of
a 
> skilled propagandist see:
>
> http://chrisbusbyexposed.spaces.live.com/ 
>
> It is fairly obvious that the Health Physics and nuclear interests we
are 
> all part of,  fall into the characterization above by Goebbels of
being 
> "straw brains" seeking "intellectual truths" and unable to connect
with 
> the "broad masses".
>
> Truth is clearly the mortal enemy of the lie,  but only if it reaches
the 
> target audience in a way that can be understood and ultimately
believed. 
> What a challenge to radiation technologies.
>
> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
> Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
> Linac, Imaging, and Rad Instrumentation Brokerage
> Bridgeport, CT 06604
>
>
> [203] 441-8433
> website: http://www.farber-medical.com (
http://www.farber-medical.com/ )
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers at hotmail.com>
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu 
> Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 12:47:39 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Uranium, genetic disease etc...
>
>
>
> Someone sent me the following:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=VAp7vlExcCM 
>
> Press release
>
> Genetic damage and health in Fallujah Iraq worse than Hiroshima
> Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by
Malak 
> Hamdan and Chris Busby are published tomorrow in the International
Journal 
> of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH) based in Basle, 
> Switzerland. They show increases in cancer, leukemia and infant
mortality 
> and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex ratio 
> significantly greater than those reported for the survivors of the
A-Bombs 
> at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
> Results of a survey in Jan/Feb 2010 of 711 houses and more than 4000

> individuals in Fallujah show that in the five years following the
2004 
> attacks by USA-led forces there has been a 4-fold increase in all
cancer. 
> Interestingly, the spectrum of cancer is similar to that in the
Hiroshima 
> survivors who were exposed to ionizing radiation from the bomb and
uranium 
> in the fallout. By comparing the sample population rates to the
cancer 
> rates in Egypt and Jordan, researchers found  there has been a
38-fold 
> increase in leukemia (20 cases) almost a  10-fold increase in female

> breast c
ancer (12 cases) and significant increases in lymphoma and
brain 
> tumours in adults.
> Based on 16 cases in the 5-year period, the 12-fold increases in
childhood 
> cancer in those aged 0-14 were particularly marked. The cancer and 
> leukemia increases were all in younger people than would normally be

> expected. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1000 births which 
> compares with a value of 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait.
An 
> important result is that the sex-ratio, which in normal populations
is 
> always 1050 boys born per 1000 girls was seriously reduced in the
group 
> born immediately after 2005, one year after the conflict: in this
group 
> the sex ratio was 860.
> Birth sex ratio is a well known indicator of genetic damage, the
reduction 
> in boy births being due to the fact that girls have a redundant 
> X-chromosome and can therefore afford to lose one though genetic
damage; 
> boys do not. Sex ratio was similarly reduced in the Hiroshima
survivors 
> children. *This is an extraordinary and alarming result* said Dr
Busby, 
> who is visiting Professor in the University of Ulster and Scientific

> Director of Green Audit, an independent environmental research 
> organization. He added: *To produce an effect like this, some very
major 
> mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks
happened. 
> We need urgently to find out what the agent was. Although many
suspect 
> Uranium, we cannot be certain without further research and
independent 
> analysis of samples from the area.*  Malak Hamdan, who organized the

> project said: * I am so glad that we have been able to obtain proper

> scientific confirmation of all the anecdotal
> evidence of cancer and congenital birth defects. Maybe now the 
> international community will wake up*.
>
> Contact: Chris Busby (France) +44 7989 428833
> Malak Hamdan (London) +44 7903 153163
> Richard Bramhall: +44 1597 825771
> Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi  Cancer, Infant
Mortality and 
> Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005*2009 Int. J. Environ. Res.
Public 
> Health 2010, 7, 1-x; doi:10.3390/ijerph707000x
>
> -----------
> Just FYI...
>
> My personal initiative only,
>
> Bjorn Cedervall
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars
with 
> Hotmail.
>
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