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Re: Stop the madness
As I've said all too often, "We have met the enemy and he is us" ("Pogo"). Our near total lack of credibility is not due to the anti's seeing our
"playbook", or some media conspiracy, but, primarily to the knee jerk responses we give, such as the one from Mr. Frey. We've been hurt not so much
by any outlandlish statements of the anti's, but by our saying that "it can't happen" and then finding that it does, eg, TMI, the "slow motion TMI" at
Hanford, Chernobyl, the recent Japanese criticality accident,.... We seem to be the ones with closed minds.
What we need is a good track record and a whole different attitude.
I welcome the participation of antinukes in this forum. We have a lot more to learn from them, than they do from us.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Let's look at the real problem, for a change.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
"Frey, Steven R." wrote:
> I propose that we stop this madness. Barring antinuclears from access to this forum
> is a great place to start. They never come here for objectivity and open exchanges
> of objective science, no matter how sincere or friendly they pretend to be. Instead,
> they come here with sickening sweetness to mine us for popular radiological science
> phrases and expressions, then use them to develop horribly-wrong but highly effective
> counterpoint sound bytes with which to crush us whenever we speak in public.
>
> Aiding and abetting the enemy is not a wise policy. We would help society benefit
> better from radiological science if we stop showing the antinuclears our playbook.
>
> Steve Frey
> (the above is my opinion only)
>
>
> -
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