[ RadSafe ] University of Ulster - e-mail address?

Tue Nov 22 06:18:50 CST 2011

From

http://www.ulster.ac.uk/contactus/

 I found

h.mcbrinn at ulster.ac.uk

2011/11/22 <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>

> RADSAFErs,
>
> It seems that everybody is fed up by our great raman spectroscopy expert
> Chris Busby, especially by his claims of university affiliations, which
> obviously could not be verified. Does anybody know an e-mail address of
> this  mystical University of Ulster, where we might be able to inquiry
> about his real status and deposit our opinion, if he really were a ,member
> of staff,  (which everybody doubts)  this Chris Busby would be a shame for
> the reputation of any university.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
>
> ---- Stewart Farber <SAFarber at optonline.net> schrieb:
> > Hello all,
>
> The current article in the Guardian:
>
> [
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/21/christopher-busby-radiation-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-radiation-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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