Re: TFP update article, E Magazine

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/16/02 8:08:25 PM Mountain Daylight Time, jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET writes:



>     People with a science/technology background  don't seem to get it!
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> Like other religions, anti-nuclear-ism is based on faith. If their
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> "prophets" say there is a 75% increase in cancer rate near nuclear plants,
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> who are we to question it?  In our culture, most of us have learned to at
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> least tolerate  religions other than our own. Why not extend this attitude
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> to Norm and others of his faith? Forget about mathematics, statistics, and
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> scientific logic. Such tools are irrelevant to the true believer.  In their
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> world, facts are whatever you sincerely believe them to be.


So that according to the constitutional separation of church and state, NRC and EPA and DOE can ignore the anti-nukes?  What a novel idea!


Ruth

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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