Re: Truck carrying 'low-level' radioactive tools crashes

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Bill,



on 8/14/02 12:30 PM, William V Lipton at liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM wrote:



> Perception is reality; just deal with it.



No matter how often you way it, it will never be true: "Perception is

ignorance, whether or not it happens to be true."



The earth was never flat!



It is the job of responsible, honest, knowledgeable people to explain

reality to the blind and ignorant! Are you doing your part?



> It's not about dose, it's about trust.



And explain how we gain trust by lying about dose? :-)



> Curies forever.



Amen!



Regards, Jim

============



 

> Bill Lipton

> liptonw@dteenergy.com

> 

> 

> RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote:

> 

>> In a message dated 8/14/02 9:27:43 AM Mountain Daylight Time,

>> caspar@AECOM.YU.EDU writes:

>> 

>> 

>> 

>>> http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/081402/14nukecrash.html

>> 

>> This article revealed several things, besides the rampant hysteria:

>> 

>> 1.  The differences in packaging are either not understood or

>> deliberately distorted by the press and/or those who inform the press.

>> 

>> 2.  Why is "low level" in quotes?  this is defined by regulation.

>> Again, this is a nasty little (and I suspect deliberate) distorion, as

>> in "well they are trying to tell us it's low level, but we know..."

>> 3.  The fact that there was no radioactive contamination is downplayed

>> -- middle of the article -- "same as in the manifest" without saying

>> what that was.

>> 

>> 

>> Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 



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