[ RadSafe ] Busby YouTube Videos - Claims to Public Audience of Mllions of Deaths from Fukushima

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

RADSAFErs,

This is a typical Sandy Perle post. He is the first one, to defend Chris Busby since this person started to distribute his antinuclear propaganda on RADSAFE.

I noticed that already during the Chernobyl accident people from oversea countries started to critizise the Sovjet measures to fight the accident and the distribution of radionuclides. ("Overseas countries" means 99% US persons.) I remember a meeting at the IIASA (International Institute for System Analysis), where two scientists from a very famous US institutions (I would not mention the name) presented proudly a map of radionuclide precipitations over the world. Unfortunately their impressive maps did not take into consideration the wet precipitation. They were really shocked when I showed them the maps of precipitation and soil contamination in Austria. 

At that time we worked on 7/24 shifts at my laboratory to measure thousands of milk samples, grass, aerosols etc. etc., but in the middle of the turmoil I received a request from a US collegue to send him soil samples!!!!! Amazing! Indicating that we had nothing else to do than to take soil samples and send them to curious persons in the USA. Very similar to the opinion of Sandy Perle. 

Have people in Japan to crawl into the most contaminated areas of wrecked nuclear power plants to satisfy the curiosity of some newspapers or even worse some groups like Greenpeace or similar ones? Do they have to report directly to Chris Busby - who is not known outside some strange circles?

"Misinformation"? How can you misinform somebody if you have no information?

It is very common, that authorities are accúsed of being negligent -  but at RADSAFE?

Before accusing the Japanese authorities of misinformation you should look back to TMI!!!!

Franz


hrieb:
> The problem is that the mis-information from both TEPCO and the Japanese government immediately after the incident, continuing on during the incident and even after the incident is what causes the public alarm and gives a forum to others. Listening to the YouTube there is a lot of truth as to what is being stated. The public was misled, mis-information, deliberate or otherwise was the norm, so to question Chris regarding just his comments on Fukushima, is not as pertinent as one could say about other topics discussed here on Radsafe. Fukushima was a disaster with serious consequences and I am not confident that we have all of the facts as to what happened, what the current state is and how stable the reactors are, even today.
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> Sandy
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> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Busby YouTube Videos - Claims to Public Audience of Millions of Deaths from Fukushima
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> Hello all,
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> I had drafted much of the following post some time ago, but did not send it to Radsafe, because I expected that Dr. Busby would have faded away long ago.  However, since he has persisted in pushing beyond-the-fringe assertions,  I'm sending the YouTube links below so interested readers can see and hear Dr. Busby's even more extreme, and inflammatory behavior when he is talking to the general public than his comport in dealing with Radsafe.  If not interested in this subject any further, please hit delete.
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> It just hit me that there is a real benefit to Dr. Busby writing Radsafe. It consumes some of his time, we get the opportunity to think about, and gather facts about how to reply to anti-nuclear nonsense, and it keeps him from doing even more mischief with people who are influenced by a scientific shell-game.
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> It's hard to understand how some people can continue making claims after their assertions, or those of sources they cite as supporting their views like Sternglass,  have been so thoroughly discredited. But some never give up hope as is said,  that if you repeat a lie often enough, it somehow becomes true.  For those possibly interested in witnessing the public behavior of  a professional anti-nuke  -- there are some utterly fascinating statements  in a two-part YouTube Busby interview video  ["The Negative Health Effects of Low-Dose Radiation from Fukushima].
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> The two Busby YouTube segments give a sense of  how the public is being swept away by a tsunami of misinformation, as it were,  and conned by absurd claims of dedicated scaremongers. The two YouTube videos below show Dr.
> Busby having a one-on-one interview with a Rush Limbaugh-like radio progam host on a Texas radio station after the accident at Fukushima.  It shows how a professional anti-nuke will make scary sounding and unsupported claims to get themselves interviewed,  and receive some sort of ego gratification, and the Lord knows what else as a motivating factor.
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> These YouTube clips provide further evidence that just  because an inflammatory claim is stated in a  British accent,  and preceded by SI units like Mega- or Giga- it is not necessarily true, or relevant to the issue at hand --and often quite meaningless.
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