Re: stop the madness

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/6/02 6:58:13 AM Mountain Standard Time, dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM writes:



> The original quote appeared in a small article on
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> page 5 of the NY Times and then vanished from the public sphere until it was
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> fraudulently resurrected by anti-nukes 13 years later.


Unfortunately, the quote achieved a life of its own.  It was resurrected, in my experience, by the Atomic Industrial Forum, and was probably repeated both verbally and in print by lots of people.  That's what happens to "sound bites".   Look at "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"  or "would rather light a candle than curse the darkness."  The first of these did not appear in print as a direct quote -- it is from a radio talk .  I'm always ready to blame anti-nukes for stuff, but not for this one.

 


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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