[ RadSafe ] Nonsense Claim: by Mangano: RE: 14, 000 US Deaths Linked to Radiation Leaks at Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor in Japan

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

I understand and am sympathetic towards your criticism of Linear No
Threshold, but I am unsure of how SI units are to blame.  While I still
think in curies, I acknowledge becquerels are an easier to explain unit.
Sieverts are just rem with the decimal place moved.  Same with grays and
rads.  

I am not saying you are incorrect; I am just saying I don't understand
what you are getting at.   

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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ted de Castro
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Nonsense Claim: by Mangano: RE: 14, 000 US
Deaths Linked to Radiation Leaks at Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor in
Japan

You realize of course that this is here to stay and why?

Two things:

LNTH and
SI units!

SI units are proclaimed to be RISK BASED and are a linear units 
enumerated all the way down to 0.  So like 1984's Newspeak - SI units 
make it impossible to speak anything other than LNTH - thus making a 
hypothesis - law!

It kinda hard of blame anyone for using the units as prescribed - 
ridiculous as it may be.

On 12/19/2011 9:07 PM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> The poster (author) of this piece's e-mail is britliggett[@]gmail
> dot.com - her personal page is at http://www.britliggett.com/writing
> and that links back to the article.  She seems to be someone with an
> interest in Green things, no expertise in radiation and perhaps easily
> baffled by Mangano's alleged academic credentials.  I am sure that she
> has no idea of Mangano's past reputation for being a prominent
> non-scientist.
>
> The publication was established by and I would seriously question them
> about why this even appears here -  the writer has written pieces for
> them in the past and has experience doing a video documentary of craft
> beer production.
>
> Inhabitat was started by NYC designer Jill Fehrenbacher (Twitter
> @JillFehr) as a forum for investigating emerging trends in product,
> interior, and architectural design. Managing Editor Mike Chino and
> Senior Editor Yuka Yoneda lead the editorial team
>
> Roger Helbig
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