Re: oyster creek emissions/ note from norm re: posting/edith g

["edith gbur" <egbur@adelphia.net>]

When I was in graduate school for the my M.S.W. my professor
an othewise mild and easy going chap put me down for
labeling and generalizing without  documentation.
 Experts disagree with each other but the lay person is
forced to choose and   make life saving  decisions constantly.
Hopefully , I've learned to expect proof or give proof in decison-making.

From: "Franz Schoenhofer" <schoenho@via.at>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:13 PM
Subject: RE: oyster creek emissions/ note from norm re: posting/edith g


> At 11:57 11.08.2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Is ever there was a better example of smarmy arrogance and pomposity
> >than this amazing email from Mr. Cohen, I'll eat my Rad Health Handbook.
>
>
> Steve,
>
>
> Thank you, for writing this! I was very close to write, that some of these
> anti's and "concerned people" are nothing but unacceptably arrogant
people,
> but then I decided, it is better not to answer any of Norman Cohens
posts -
> it is not worth the time. For me it is arrogant, if somebody like Norman
> Cohen tells us - like in one of his last posts, which I did not answer -
> that I-131 and Sr-90 accumulates parts of the body, like thyroid, bones
and
> teeth and there continue to emit radiation and to harm the immune system.
> (Please note- the immune system!, thats really new, that radiation effects
> the immune system.) Norman Cohen does only read, what he wants and I
> remember that I have months ago patiently explained to him, that radium is
> a naturally occurring radionuclide, but is accumulated in bone, as well as
> other naturally radionuclides are accumulated in other organs. But we read
> again his arrogant mail (among so many arrogant ones), telling RADSAFErs
> (among which some of the real world-renown experts are) about that there
> exist critical organs! We read every time his advertisment for certain
> groups (I thought that advertisments were not allowed). Let me make it
even
> more clear: If I would enter a discussion forum about zoology and would
> tell in bombastic mails the participants over and over again, that a fly
> has four legs, that birds fly tail in front, that cats have three eyes -
> don't you think I would be banned from the list within a few days? I would
> not enter lists on zoology, not on stock exchange, on watch mechanics,
etc.
> because I do not understand anything on these topics. I had hoped that the
> people distributing the "facts" that natural and artificial radiation are
> different and similar nonsense, would quit mailing - but no, we have just
> read that Norman Cohen will try to limit his mails to three per day.
>
> Gratulation that you dared to write, what I did not. I thought my
> reputation was already bad enough....
>
> Franz
>
>
> Franz Schoenhofer
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> Austria
> Tel.: +43-1-495 53 08
> Fax.: same number
> mobile phone: +43-664-338 0 333
> e-mail: schoenho@via.at
>
>
> Please note my new telephone number at my office!
>
> Office:
> Ministerialrat Dr. Franz Schoenhofer
> Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
Management
> Radiation Protection Department (BMLFUW I/8 U)
> Radetzkystr. 2
> A-1031 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
>
> phone: -43-1-71100-4458
> fax: -43-1-7122331
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