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Re: Reaching APASE and people like them
I think it is a shame that most engineering and science curriculums do not require a single course in safety whether it be everyday hazards or the hazards we possibly experience from exposures to radiation or chemicals.
Dan Burnfield, CHP PE
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
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Washington, DC 20004
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>>> Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu> 01/03/01 11:31AM >>>
> >What were the qualification s of her teachers? In my decades of >teaching I
> >saw, believe me, lots of crummy students and fair amount of >crummy
> >science teaching.
--In most (if not all) U.S. universities, a person can be an
excellent student and get a Ph.D. in Physics or in Chemistry, and not
learn anything about health effects of radiation. In fact most such people
get their principal education on that from newspapers and magazines.
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