[ RadSafe ] SCAREMONGERING FOR FUN AND PROFIT --RE: The Bereted Wonder and his Pills
Rich Gallego
rich at tgainc.com
Mon Nov 21 19:35:55 CST 2011
I know Bruce Busby, he is a friend of mine, and Chris Busby is no Bruce Busby!
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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Perle, Sandy
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Brent, you're right. There is a significant difference between Bruce Busby and Chris Busby!
Regards,
Sandy
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On 11/21/11 5:15 PM, "Brent Rogers" <brent.rogers at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>CHRIS Busby, not Bruce.
>
>Brevity alert: Sent from my iPad
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>On 22/11/2011, at 11:47, Stewart Farber <SAFarber at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The current article in the Guardian:
>>
>> [
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/21/christopher-busby-ra
>>dia
>>tion-pills-fukushima
>>
>> --Post-Fukushima 'anti-radiation' pills condemned by scientists -
>>Green party distances itself from Dr Christopher Busby]
>>
>> highlighted scaremongering and crude profiteering by Bruce Busby and
>>the so-called "Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima".
>>
>> One would have hoped that any academic institution such as the
>>University or Ulster, would have previously severed any relationship
>>with any party or entity making such unsupported claims with the goal
>>of misleading and terrifying the Japanese people. Busby is apparently
>>too extreme even for the Greens!
>>
>> There are many institutions, with which various unethical people have
>>claimed a loose affiliation, that should immediately make clear to the
>>public and media that they do not tolerate such crude and cynical
>>violations of basic standards of intellectual honesty, and publically
>>sever any claimed relationship.
>>
>> My undergraduate university had a running joke about a fictional
>>character, a "Dr. Josiah S[tinkney] Carberry", Professor Emeritus of
>>PsychoCeramics [i.e.: The study of Cracked Pots]. In a gag running
>>since 1929, Dr. Carberry would be spotted on campus every Friday 13th.
>>Dr. Josiah S. Carberry, would be photographed turning a corner, etc.,
>>or a lecture scheduled for which he never showed up. Cracked pots
>>would be set up all over campus into which students tossed spare change.
>>
>> Unfortunately, our most noted Radsafe example of a visiting Professor
>>of PsychoCeramics, who has been working so diligently to scare the
>>people of Japan and trying to get press coverage for himself by making
>>extreme and unsupported quasi-scientific claims, is much more than a
>>Friday 13th joke.
>>
>> Any University which is not seeking to have their own Emeritus
>>Professorsip of PsychoCeramics should terminate their relationship
>>with radiological scaremongers if their institution is not to be
>>viewed quite simply, as an academic joke. To read a summary of the
>>purely good-intentioned, academic joke at Brown about its Emeritus
>>Professor of PsychoCeramics, see:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_S._Carberry
>>
>>
>> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
>> Bridgeport, CT 06604
>> 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 Jaro Franta
>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:27 PM
>> To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
>>List'
>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] SCAREMONGERING FOR FUN AND PROFIT --RE: The
>>Bereted Wonder and his Pills
>>
>> A new article in the media....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/21/christopher-busby-ra
>>dia
>>tion-pills-fukushima
>>
>> Post-Fukushima 'anti-radiation' pills condemned by scientists Green
>>party distances itself from Dr Christopher Busby, a former spokesman
>>promoting products following Japanese nuclear disaster George Monbiot
>>and Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 November 2011
>>16.59 GMT
>>
>> The Green party's former science and technology spokesman is
>>promoting anti-radiation pills to people in Japan affected by the
>>Fukushima nuclear disaster, that leading scientists have condemned as "useless".
>>
>> Dr Christopher Busby, a visiting professor at the University of
>>Ulster, is championing a series of expensive products and services
>>which, he claims, will protect people in Japan from the effects of radiation.
>>Among them are mineral supplements on sale for ?5,800 ( 48) a bottle,
>>urine tests for radioactive contaminants for ?98,000 ( 808) and food
>>tests for ?108,000 ( 891).
>>
>> The tests are provided by Busby Laboratories and promoted through a
>>body called the Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of
>>Fukushima (CBFCF). Both the pills and the tests are sold through a
>>website in California called 4u-detox.com, run by a man called James
>>Ryan.
>>
>> Though a controversial figure, Busby has been championed by the
>>anti-nuclear movement and some environmentalists. He is still
>>consulted by the Green party on issues such as low-level radiation and
>>depleted uranium, but when contacted by the Guardian the party
>>distanced itself from Busy's activities. Penny Kemp, the Green party
>>communications director, said that the party did not condone Busby's
>>promotion of the products.
>>
>> In a video on YouTube, Busby says that the calcium and magnesium
>>pills will be supplied "at the cost of production". But the prices
>>being charged by 4u-detox.com are far greater than those of other
>>mineral supplements on sale in Japan. Chemists in Tokyo sell bottles
>>of 200 pills containing similar combinations of ingredients for ?1,029 ( 8.49).
>>James Ryan's website also charges a minimum shipping cost of ?2,300
>>( 19).
>>
>> The Japanese government already monitors human exposure to radiation
>>and tests food and water, banning contaminated products from sale. It
>>works to stricter radiation limits than the EU.
>>
>> Fukushima prefecture has launched a comprehensive radiation testing
>>programme, as well as distributing radiation monitors to 280,000
>>children at elementary and junior high schools. Hospitals at the edge
>>of the exclusion zone are offering full body radiation scans and the
>>government plans to check the thyroid glands of 360,000 children by
>>March 2014 with follow up tests continuing for the rest of their lives.
>>
>> The CBFCF also solicits donations from the public, to be paid into an
>>account called Green Audit at a bank in Busby's home town of
>>Aberystwyth. Green Audit is an environmental consultancy and research
>>organisation founded by Busby.
>>
>> Launching the products and tests, Busby warns in his video of a
>>public health catastrophe in Japan caused by the Fukushima explosions,
>>and claims that radioactive caesium will destroy the heart muscles of
>>Japanese children.
>>
>> He also alleges that the Japanese government is trucking radioactive
>>material from the Fukushima site all over Japan, in order to "increase
>>the cancer rate in the whole of Japan so that there will be no control
>>group" of children unaffected by the disaster, in order to help the
>>Japanese government prevent potential lawsuits from people whose
>>health may have been affected by the radiation. The pills, he claims,
>>will stop radioactive contaminants attaching themselves to the DNA of
>>Japanese children.
>>
>> But Gerry Thomas, professor of molecular pathology at the department
>>of surgery and cancer at Imperial College, London, describes his
>>statements about heart disease caused by caesium as "ludicrous". She
>>says that radioactive elements do not bind to DNA. "This shows how
>>little he understands about basic radiobiology." Of the products and
>>services being offered, she says, "none of these are useful at all. Dr
>>Busby should be ashamed of himself."
>>
>> Professor Ohtsura Niwa, a member of the International Commission on
>>Radiological Protection, said that Busby had offered no evidence for
>>his claims of deliberate contamination. "It is not possible for the
>>government and Tepco [the company that runs the Fukushima nuclear
>>plant] to cheat people, now that so many citizens equipped with
>>dosimeters are measuring radiation levels all over Japan," he said.
>>
>> Niwa described Busby's faith in magnesium and calcium supplements for
>>guarding against radionuclides such as strontium, uranium and
>>plutonium as "baseless".
>>
>> A Japanese government spokesman also rebutted the accusation of
>>deliberately contaminating other parts of Japan. Noriyuki Shikata,
>>deputy cabinet secretary for public affairs in the prime minister's
>>office, said that so far only tsunami debris from Miyako in Iwate
>>prefecture has been transported to Tokyo for incineration, adding that
>>the disposal of waste generated by the disaster applies only to Iwate
>>and Miyagi prefectures, not Fukushima.
>>
>> "At this point, there are no plans to transport radioactive waste
>>outside Fukushima prefecture," Shikata said. "Efforts are now being
>>co-ordinated to construct intermediate storage facilities for
>>radioactive waste inside Fukushima prefecture."
>>
>> Yasuhito Sasaki, executive director of the Japan Radioisotope
>>Association, described the idea that large swaths of the country were
>>being deliberately contaminated as "ridiculous". "No decision has been
>>made on the final disposal of radioactive waste," he said. "Local
>>governments in Fukushima haven't even approved a government proposal
>>to store it locally on a temporary basis."
>>
>> Busby told the Guardian that the money from the sales of pills and
>>tests goes to the CBFCF, which was established by James Ryan. When
>>asked what his involvement with the foundation is, Busby said: "It's
>>got nothing to do with me. He phoned me up and asked if he could use
>>my name and I said he could." But he added: "I'm conducting the tests.
>>I promised him I would measure the samples he sent to me." Asked if
>>Busby Laboratories was his operation, he said, "I'm Busby Laboratories."
>>
>> Ryan did not respond to a question from the Guardian on why the
>>products and services provided by 4u-detox.com are so expensive. Nor
>>did he provide any evidence for the efficacy of the products when asked.
>>
>> He did say: "All money from 4u Detox goes to children of Fukushima
>>and children throughout Japan. We have donated a great amount to
>>children of Japan".
>>
>> Products and services offered by Busby Laboratories and sold through
>>4u-detox.com
>>
>>
>> Testing urine for uranium and strontium: ?98,000 ( 808) Testing food
>>for caesium and iodine: ?29,800 ( 246) Testing food for plutonium,
>>uranium and strontium: ?108,000 ( 891) Testing water for caesium and
>>strontium: ?59,800 ( 493) Russian-made radiation monitors: ?28,000
>>yen + ?3,200 yen for shipping
>>( 257 in total). The same model is available on eBay for 170,
>>including shipping costs.
>>
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