Re: two headed cows - TMI - 20 yrs later

[mark sasser <duke99301@yahoo.com>]

Thats it we all need to go on Springer live !!! you
know when I was at handford we used to get Mud swallow
nest reading in the R/hr range how come we never here
about them or the rabbits in the area. we used to hold
over. to clean up bunny droppings with a Vacuum
truck.o one says anything about the bunnys! Or the
Birds? or what about the tumble weeds that would read
up to 500 mr/hr. we used to bag up and toss.
tell me about the Impact from the bunny droppings?
sass
--- "Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca> wrote:
> 
> IMHO there could very easily be "two headed cows,"
> not unlike the
> eight-legged "octopus colt" claimed near Chernobyl.
> Recently I querried a local media (paper + TV)
> science writer, Dr. Joe
> Schwarcz (usually quite excellent), about an article
> he wrote, in which he
> included mutagenic/teratogenic radiation effects
> around Chernobyl :
> 
> >From: 	Franta, Jaroslav
> > Sent: 	Monday, June 26, 2000 4:10 PM
> > To: 	'Dr. Joe Schwarcz, McGill U Office of Chem &
> Soc'
> > Subject: 	        Colts with eight legs etc.
> > 
> > Dear Dr. Schwarcz,
> > Regarding your Ninja Turtles article in last
> Sunday's Montreal Gazette.
> > I have read about that eight-legged ("octopus")
> colt before.
> > However, it would not be at all surprising that
> SIAMESE TWINS would have
> > eight legs ( one colt has four, therefore two
> colts.....).
> > 
> > As I'm sure you're well aware, the phenomenon of
> siamese twins has nothing
> > to do with genetic mutation due to radiation or
> anything else (in fact the
> > eight-legged colt's genes would be expected to be
> perfectly normal, and
> > yield perfectly normal offspring, were the animal
> to live long enough to
> > procreate..). It is a rare failure in the cell
> division process that
> > causes siamese twins to be born.
> > 
> > Likewise, pigs without eyes may well be caused by
> a nutritional deficiency
> > - perhaps lack of folic acid.
> > 
> > If you have any more information on any such
> reports, I would appreciate
> > if you could please forward them.
> >  I offer the following report (attached below) on
> genetic mutations in the
> > wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Jaro
> <><><><><><>
> 
> ....following which I received this very
> unsatisfactory reply, which
> illustrates perfectly how stereotypes are
> perpetuated :
> 
> > ----------
> >From: 	JOE
> SCHWARCZ[SMTP:schwarcz@chemistry.mcgill.ca]
> > Reply To: 	schwarcz@chemistry.mcgill.ca
> > Sent: 	Monday, June 26, 2000 4:30 PM
> > To: 	Franta, Jaroslav
> > Subject: 	Re: Colts with eight legs etc.
> > 
> > The point was that radiation is one way we can get
> harmful 
> > mutations.  The details don't really matter in
> this context.
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Dr. Joe Schwarcz
> > Director
> > McGill Office for Chemistry and Society
> > 514-398-6238
> > schwarcz@chemistry.McGill.ca
> <><><><><><><><><><>
> 
> Comment : doesn't that just make you cringe (or
> something..) ??
> 
> Jaro
> frantaj@aecl.ca
> 
> >From: 	mark sasser[SMTP:duke99301@yahoo.com]
> > Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> > Sent: 	Tuesday July 25, 2000 10:16 AM
> > To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: 	Re: TMI, Hershey, and radioactive milk?
> > 
> > I do not belive it! there are no two headed cows.
> I live in the
> > area...there is nothing in the news life
> > is good there.
> > And as for Handfords Down winders! Most of them
> are farmers who never
> > donned ppe to put chemicals on their
> > crops.no cancer there! I worked hanford 11 years
> and my father 44 years so
> > did my Uncles no one in our
> > faimly is sick and most of our friends from there
> never got sick. all the
> > guys I know have passed on from
> > old age. sorry I do not belive in the problems.
> > 
> > Tom Lashley
> > LashleyT@DTEenergy.com
> > 
>
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