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Re: Relevance of experts
You effectively communicate what I've been thinking, but have not been able to
express; many thanx.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
"Michael G. Stabin" wrote:
> >Why do you exclude ICRP, NCRP, etc. from the "fearmongering" category?
>
> I do not accept, and in fact find quite objectionable, the position put
> forth by some on this list of a moral equivalence between these fine
> scientific committees and the organizations and individuals bent on
> disseminating disinformation for political purposes. We have drawn parallels
> before to other periods in history where scientific theories were replaced
> or amended by overwhelming evidence. In the case of LNT, there may be
> evidence against it, but it is not overwhelming to the point that the
> scientific community as a whole, or these committees in particular, have
> been swayed to embrace them and the wholesale changes in radiation
> protection philosophy and practice they suggest. Equating this cautious
> attitude with the irresponsible anti-nuclear fearmongering of the Sternglass
> types is, I think, also irresponsible. Such emotional and off-target
> accusations cause those who make them to lose credibility in my book. We can
> be critical of committees, public agencies, and individuals who we feel may
> be overly conservative or who err, that's fine, if it's done constructively.
> The more strident criticisms that I often see on this list along the lines
> you mention do not interest me even for discussion purposes, because I find
> them so patently untenable and unfair.
>
> Mike
>
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Vanderbilt University
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>
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