RE: vincent and franz

["Frey, Steven R." <sfreyohp@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>]

Dear RADSAFERS - freedom of speech is an absolute must. But attempting to persuade antinuclear ideologues is a waste of your time, patience, and energy. Moreover, antinuclear activists know our weakness: we willing to exhaust ourselves trying to help them see facts and in a reasonable context. So they string us out with deliberate, endless quibbling about this and then that. For us, it is the conversational equivalent of an asymptotic curve; we're never going reach our goal with them. We seem to have to re-learn this lesson every so often. For that, we owe thanks to Mr. Cohen. Steve Frey



-----Original Message-----

From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@HOME.COM]

Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:55 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: vincent and franz





Dear  Vincent and Franz

 You never complained to me at the time about being sent emails by my 'friends'. If this really happened, and had you told me, I would have stopped it, disavowed it, apologized for it,  right away. If these actions happened, they were wrong.

   I must tell you that I don't recall forwarding  radsafe emails to general lists like our Unplug list. It might well have happened, though. What I will do is search the Unplug archives and see if anything comes up with your names or radsafe on it.

   What I mostly recall was acting as an intermediary for questions about the Tooth Fairy, and I indeed did forward Tooth Fairy questions to Mangano, Gould etal for answers.  I would have occasionally sent an email to Lochbaum for his opinion, but I know Dave is too classy to flame you.

   With all of that said, I do apologize if my actions led to your being harrassed. If it ever happens again, or if you have those old posts, please let me know at once.



 Peace,

 Norm





> (That reminds me: Franz is right, too.  I also got suckered into responding to Norm with a few reasoned replies a couple of years ago.  He never answered some rather simple questions (along the lines of "How does radiation slip by sensitive environmental monitors undetected and still damage the health of those poor people living near nuclear facilities?").  However, my e-mails and address WERE apparently routed to some of his friends with the 'Coalition for Peace and Justice' (ironic name), and I received a rash of e-mails that were more hate-filled and threatening than I would have imagined possible.  They were also so incoherent and deranged that I would have turned them over to a law-enforcement agency if they had continued.  So much for 'peace, norm'...)





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