RE: salem radiation forum 9/8

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

"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason
as to administer medication to the dead."

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)



Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

		Before you criticize someone, always walk a mile in their
shoes.  That way, if they take offense they'll be a mile away and barefoot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ruth_weiner [SMTP:ruth_weiner@email.msn.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:09 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: salem radiation forum 9/8
> 
> >That line about lynching is quite unfair and unprofessional.  Go to
> >www.unplugsalem.org, read the names of the organizations signed on to the
> >campaign
> 
> Apologies in advance -- rant to follow.  Skip it if you don't like rants,
> please.
> 
> My own most recent personal "lynching" was at a meeting in Las Vegas in
> 1993, where a typical question to me was (and this is a real quote, though
> the speaker did not identify herself) "60% of the children in my community
> are born mentally retarded.  Now explain THAT to me!" and when I said
> there
> was no way I could explain it on the basis of her statement, I was heckled
> as to both why not and how could I call myself a scientist, etc.  As I
> said,
> this was fairly typical of the meeting.
> 
> 
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