Re: loosing, Tooth Fairy Project

[BLHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 08/02/2000 8:13:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tedrock@cpcug.org writes:

<< After we are willing to state, without qualification,  the
 scientific truth, that low-dose radiation is harmless and can be
 beneficial--until then, we have no moral right to complain about the
 public's "irrational fear" or stupidity.>>

I totally disagree with this statement.  The fact that the public can't make 
rational judgments about alleged risks associated with low dose radiation 
that effectively have no experimental data to support their existence is not 
my fault, and I feel I do have the moral right to complain about their 
irrational fear and stupidity.  We could though choose to blame the 
democratic philosophy that allows that all people are created 
equal...implying, of course, that each and every one is entitled to get full 
weight given their opinion on any matter whatsoever, no matter how uneducated 
about the issue they might be.

<<  Until that day, the lawsuits will
 continue, people will die because they are afraid to get mammograms or other
 life-saving nuclear medicine procedures, new nuclear plants will not be
 built, people will violently protest shipping tiny quantities of
 radioactivity, etc.  I don't think we can blame them.  >>

I do.

Barbara L. Hamrick
BLHamrick@aol.com
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