RE: DU scare story from Los Alamos

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

I have the text, if anyone wants a copy.  A marvelous example of doubletalk.

Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

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On Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:47 AM, ruth_weiner
[SMTP:ruth_weiner@email.msn.com] wrote:
> The story about "dihydrogen monoxide" (this was how the Albuquerque
Journal
> had it) can't be told too often.
> 
> I might add that I am really absolutely disgusted by the immediate yammer
> yammer yammer of the anti-nukes about possible "environmental hazards"
while
> at the same time they completely ignore the plight of the fire's victims.
> There is even a "community forum" being put on to discuss among other
things
> "alternative interpretations of monitoring data".
> 
> Ruth Weiner
> ruth_weiner@msn.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Marshall <GMARSHALL@gtsduratek.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: DU scare story from Los Alamos
> 
> 
> >All of this latest discussion about "deadly" and "highly toxic" DU, Pu,
> etc. reminds me of the middle-school student who won his school's science
> fair a few years ago by getting folks to sign a petition calling for a
> worldwide ban on the terribly hazardous chemical dihydrogen oxide.  All he
> had to do was stand on the street corner, stop passers by, and show them a
> list of hazards.  I don't have the details at my desk, but it went
something
> like this:
> >
> >"This chemical almost always leads to death upon inhalation.
Uncontrolled
> releases completely destroy whole towns many times each year.  It is
always
> found in cancer cells.  It causes severe burns in both its gaseous and
solid
> states.  When existing as a solid or liquid, it is the direct cause of
> thousands of fatal accidents each year.  It is a known carrier of almost
> every serious disease known to man.    Elimination of this substance would
> immediately eradicate AIDS."  There were many other "hazards" cited.  This
> young man was able to convince two-thirds of respondents to sign a
petition
> calling for a worldwide ban on water!
> >
> >A decent argument that the Second Law of Thermodynamics applies also to
> human intelligence.  Collectively, we're just too dumb to realize it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Glenn Marshall
> >(865) 220-1666
> >gmarshall@gtsduratek.com
> >
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