Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Actually, it's not so simple.  Any scientists involved are generally not
conservative (let alone ultra-conservative) of their own volition.  DOE and
EPA insist on it because they think the media will blast them if they are
not.  Certainly the anti-nukes will blast them.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rockwell <tedrock@cpcug.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths


>> the numbers that are quoted are risk estimates based on very conservative
>models and assumptions.  if all of these numbers were true, we'd be
tripping
>over bodies on our way to the grocery store!  Its unfortunate when  the
>media and others get ahold of these numbers and interpret them as actual
>fact, without discussing the assumptions, the models and the methods used.
>
>Folks:
>
>I don't see how we can blame the media for this (and hundreds of similar
>events).  The facts are: Scientist(s) studied this situation and reached
>this conclusion.  Media report it.  Scientist(s) complain about the media.
>
>If the assumptions lead to ridiculous conclusions, then we'd better change
>them before we report the results.  Better yet, have the character to
resist
>carrying out such studies, even if it means turning down some money.
>
>TR
>
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