[ RadSafe ] Very serious question - please answer!

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

I find Prof. Busby's posts useful, as it give me a "heads-up" on the
next bogus line coming down the way.  I can then warn my bosses, and
spend the several minutes spotting the holes in his arguments.  On
several occasions this has proved useful, when a member of the public or
a reporter contacts my organization, concerned about one of these claims
(such as a higher infant mortality on the West Coast of the US due to
Fukushima).  I can quickly shoot back a well developed explanation about
why the issue they are concerned about is not honestly stated, and point
out how this is not an isolated occurrence.  I don't know that I have
convinced anyone to be more discerning in general, but I have reduced
the panic level on particular topics, and shown them that the source is
not to be trusted.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Mages, Robert
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:01 PM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Very serious question - please answer!

I have been a member of this list for quite sometime and I have seen the
ebb and flow of non-technical threads on these pages.  I stay focused on
obtaining the true technical information that interests me and I stay
away from the posts that run contrary to the goal of this list.  I
simply delete them.  If I need to question a member about a specific
topic, I contact them personally.

Respectfully,
Bob Mages


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of
franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:37 PM
To: radsafe
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Very serious question - please answer!

RADSAFErs,

The question which I am going to pose is very serious and has nothing to
do with personal animosity but with severe differences in relevant
scientific questions.

We have at RADSAFE since a few weeks a person posting messages, claims,
attempting to insult several persons at RADSAFE (including me, but I use
to say that somebody like him cannot insult me), spreading comments
which have been marked by knowledgable  first class professionals as
being completely wrong. He adds time and again personal attacks, like
"somebody (me)" who has worked in the business for more that 30 years
and is obviously an internationally reputated environmental
radioactivity expert, should go back to school. His latest nonsense on
Po-210 is almost funny and not to be taken serious.

This person makes his money with antinuclear propaganda. He claims to
published peer reviewed papers in journals, which have been proven on
RADSAFE not to exist. He claims to be an outstanding person in
international "commissions" and "audits" , he claims profound knowledge
in radioisotope analysis, but all he can provide is an obscure
laboratory with NaI(Tl) detectors. Please spare me the effort to show
all his unbelievable statements -it would be a waste of time. 

My question is, whether anybody on RADSAFE believes any single sentence
other than "wheather is fine" from this person on RADSAFE - until now
nobody posted any supportive message. 

Having been so long on RADSAFE, always having appreciated it, met very
nice people there - even personally - I think that this great network
should not be ruined by one single troll. Previously trolls were nice
persons, with whom I sometimes had very friendly and nice exchange of
opinions. 

Please reply to me - not only personally but also to RADSAFE. It might
be possible to show the listowner the opinion of the RyDSAFE
participants. As I have previously posted it is not acceptable that
postings of world wide acknowledged specialists are massivly delayed,
while such of the person in question are forwarded immediately. 

Best regards to everybody, except the Raman spectroscopist who turned
into radiation protection world authority.

Franz 


Franz Schoenhofer, PhD, MinRat
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
Austria
mobile: ++43 699 1706 1227
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