Re: Radiophobia -Hazards of Tooth Fairy Project?

[RadiumProj@cs.com]

Radsafe:
While Mr. Spencer quotes, almost verbatim, my earlier post to Radsafe [see 
Re: Envirocare -How to promote dialogue? Date:  1/9/01 10:56:48 AM Pacific 
Standard Time]  which I posted in regard to the use of a scatological 
reference to anti-nuclear arguments raised in a public forum regarding 
Envirocare he misses a key point. There is a real difference between swearing 
at your critics and using satire to make a point that undercuts their 
arguments.

I must also, respectfully, point out to Mr. Spencer that if he is going to 
write:

>  
>  All views expressed are solely my own.

as he did in his most recent post below, that when he takes another person's 
words [as he did so clearly with my earlier post on Envirocare] he should 
quote them, rather than plagarize them after changing a word or two to apply 
them in a totally different context.

Stewart Farber, MSPH
Consulting Scientist
Public Health Sciences
172 Old Orchard Way
Warren, VT 05674
email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com


"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
 - Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
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In a message dated 1/15/01 9:24:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Spencerr@coned.com writes:

> Radsafe:
>  While this board is mainly made up of health physics "professionals", some
>  of 
>  whom might even feel some small degree of amusement with the sentiment 
borne
>  of  whimsy noted above, I suggest the use of ridicule of one's private life
>  of this type 
>  is foolish, counterproductive, and even alienating to many of the audiences
>  we might be trying to reach. 
>  The journalists, writers, and even antinuclear activists who read Radsafe 
at
>  times can only tend to feel 
>  distanced from information expressed on Radsafe that does not jive with
>  their world view if they feel the 
>  Health Physics community holds them personally with such condescension. 
>  
>  
>  Ronald E. Spencer
>  
>  All views expressed are solely my own.
>  
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