[ RadSafe ] Fraud? -Busby Laboratories & "Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima"

Sat Dec 3 19:24:22 CST 2011

Stewart

I can only imagine that the Wikipedia entry you copied may not apply to anyone in paticular, but may very well have a picture of a guy wearing a beret beside it.

Brent Rogers
Sydney Australia

Brevity alert: Sent from my iPad

On 04/12/2011, at 9:47, Stewart Farber <SAFarber at optonline.net> wrote:

> Certain basic questions have been repeatedly posed to Dr. Busby about the
> legal status and registration of "Busby Laboratories" and the so-called
> "Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima." [CBFCF]
> 
> Dr. Busby has refused to reply to the specific questions asked of him on
> Radsafe that would establish the legitimacy of these entities  questioned by
> many parties both in England by the Guardian and elsewhere. Accordingly,
> until proven otherwise  one can only assume that the firms and foundations
> to which he proudly attaches his name are fraudulent. According, it would
> seem appropriate that people should consider not responding to any point or
> issue he raises until he can answer reasonable questions about Busby
> Laboratories and the CBFCF asked of him on Radsafe and in the major British,
> and International newspaper the Guardian.
> 
> The few words Dr. Busby has posted on the LLRC website about the Guardian
> article are essentially irrelevant to the issues raised there and on
> Radsafe. He studiously avoids providing a responsive explanation of the key
> serious issues about Busby Laboratories' existence, and apparent
> profiteering by the CBFCF by drifting off into mostly irrelevant tangents on
> various radiation issues, where he expounds issues other than the questions
> at hand. His comments about people from Japan not presently being able to
> make donations to Green Audit, his personal organization,  from the CBFCF
> webpage strain credulity given that he has provided the bank account numbers
> and wire transfer information for deposits to his account, such that anyone
> can wire monies directly to him with no accounting or control.
> 
> Paraphrasing US Senator Lloyd Bentsen from his 1988 US Vice-Presidential
> debate with Dan Quale, when Quale likened himself to Jack Kennedy would have
> had Bentsen remarking to Busby:
> 
> "Dr. Busby, I knew the Mahatma, and you Dr. Busby are no Mahatma Ghandi."
> 
> The following discussion on Wikipedia is not meant to be applicable to any
> one person or their actions, but offers something to ponder as possible
> background on behaviors sometimes seen in in people often out of touch with
> reality --as by their ignoring consensus science and knowledge in favor of
> unsupported fringe beliefs.
> 
> ===============
> From WIKIPEDIA, the free encyclopedia: 
>  "Delusions of grandeaur and grandiosity
> 
>   Grandiose delusions
> 
>   Delusions of grandeur" redirects here. For other uses, see Delusions of
> grandeur (disambiguation)."
> 
> "Grandiose delusion or delusions of grandeur is principally a subtype of
> delusional disorder (GD) that can occur as a wide range of mental illness,
> including in two thirds of those in manic state of bipolar disorder, half
> those with schizophrenia and a substantial portion of those with substance
> abuse disorders.[1][2] GDs are characterized by fantastical beliefs that one
> is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful. The delusions
> are generally fantastic and typically have a supernatural,
> science-fictional, or religious theme. There is a relative lack of research
> into GD, in comparison to persecutory delusions and auditory hallucinations.
> About 10% of healthy people experience grandiose thoughts but do not meet
> full criteria for a diagnosis of GD.[2]
> 
> Grandiose delusions are distinct from grandiosity, in that the sufferer does
> not have insight into his loss of touch with reality.
> 
> In colloquial usage, one who overestimates one's own abilities, talents,
> stature or situation is sometimes said to have 'delusions of grandeur'. This
> is generally due to excessive pride, rather than any actual delusions."
> 
> .................
> SEE ALSO:
> Megalomania
> Persecutory delusions
> Everton F.C.
> 
> REFERENCES:  [snipped out, to save space but found on Wikipedia]
> 
> ====================================
> 
> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
> SAFarber at optonline.net
> 203-441-8433
> 
> =====================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Busby, Chris
> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 4:03 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List;
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> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Fraud? -Busby Laboratories & "Christopher Busby
> Foundation for the Children of Fukushima"
> 
> First they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win.
> Mahatma Gandhi
> 
> Chris
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Franz Schönhofer
> Sent: Fri 02/12/2011 21:17
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Fraud? -Busby Laboratories & "Christopher Busby
> Foundation for the Children of Fukushima"
> 
> 
> 
> Mark, Stewart et al.,
> 
> The LLRC is the same kind of hoax and blantant fraud as everything else
> associated with the great professor and as I just read, now also doctor in
> chemistry. Look at google and you will recognize the same bunch of ......
> (sorry: members of this group) as in everything associated with the fake
> organisations like "ECRR", names like Rosalie Bertell, links to Gofman and
> the same well known self appointed pseudoscientists, including for instance
> despised German "professors", who are retired since many years, if not
> decades and are not doing any work - partly because their positions have
> been taken from them because of obvious scientific fraud. "Green audit" is
> another piece of the mosaic - it seems not to exist. Chris Busby has btw
> never revealed which laboratories have made all the "revealing" analyses of
> radionuclides and especially uranium isotopes and transuranic elements. I
> suspect possible laboratories close to the ECRR people and which have been
> ridiculed because they found all kind of exotic transuranics in the dust
> collected with a vacuum cleaner. Does this not sound familiar - "somebody
> else" used airfilters from cars to measure and calculate the exact
> emissions from Fukushima.
> What surprises me most in the whole Busby et. al. story is, that not even
> Greenpeace uses the Busby et al. fairy tales, though they are usually the
> first ones to distribute any negative "news" about everything nuclear. Any
> explanation? (A serious question!) Very similar is my surprise that his
> name nevere has been mentioned in the Austrian mass media - though Austria
> is officially the most anti-nuclear country in Europe.
> Isn't it also interesting that no European scientist in our field whom I
> have asked, knows the name "Chris Busby", not to talk about his claims and
> "expertise".
> Sorry I had to vent my disdain for such persons. My next mail on the topic
> will contain a brief analysis of my medical doctor on the behaviour of
> mostly Chris Busby - it coincides with my personal opinion.
> 
> Have a nice weekend and hopefully a good laugh on those nonsensical claims
> and the massmedia who take such persons serious.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> 22011/11/30 Mark Ramsay <mark.ramsay at ionactive.co.uk>
> 
>> Stewart
>> 
>> I concur, have you seen reply / explanation here:
>> 
>> http://www.llrc.org/
>> 
>> Rgs
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
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