Re: "The Secret Word"

["JOHN JACOBUS" <JENDAY1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>]

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Jerry Cohen wrote:



Shakespeare was wrong! With proper PR and spin - a rose by some other name

could be made to stink. Never underestimate the power of semantics.

Example: changing NMR to MRI

People who objected to undergoing the "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance "

procedure seemed to have no problem with "Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

Same procedure; different name.



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There is also an element that the group seems to be missing.  Radiation used

in medicine is good.  Radiation used for generation of energy is bad.



- -- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certifed Health Physicist

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD 20715-2024

jenday1@email.msn.com (H)



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