RE: Re :LNT and educating the public

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

John, and Ruth,


Just to take this out of context completely. There are several things in

audio engineering that people have what I call theological beliefs in the

way to do things. I've managed to fully debunk many of them, but in the

early days of trying to debunk these things, I felt I was going up

against a belief system, not a sense of scientific

understanding.


People were told to do things a certain way and believed it. That's why I

understood where Ruth was coming from in my reply to her (and the

list).


These people have whatever traditional religion they subscribe to and

they have the religion-of-grounding-the-way-I-believe. I suspect Ruth's

Peace Activist was the same.


Cheers,


Richard


At 12:53 PM 10/31/2002 -0500, Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) wrote:

Ruth,
While not trying to start a e-mail wars, I think you will have to admit that there are some readers on this list who also hold views that are religious in nature.  Any questioning is dismissed and the writer is attacked.  The fact that a person can have a different viewpoint is an alien concept as they know the "truth."  I believe that there is not inherent right or wrong to many of the issues that you cite.  I think that a respectable discourse is necessary for understand others' viewpoints, and to help reach a consensus. 
 
Personally, I believe that such individuals hurt their own cause.

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)     

-----Original Message-----

From: RuthWeiner@aol.com [mailto:RuthWeiner@aol.com]

Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:22 PM

To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Re :LNT and educating the public

 . . .

My question to the psychologically-minded is: how can people for whom being anti-nuke is a virtual faith be encouraged to become adequately informed?  I do not believe this is a question of speaking "lay language."   My peace activist lady doesn't want to know, because she is afraid that the truth about DU will somehow cast a shadow on her convictions about peace (which of course it won't).  In my opinion, the approach is that being pro-or anti-nuke is not appropriately a religious or spiritual faith, there is no inherent "rightness" or "wrongness" about nuclear power or food irradiation, etc. 

I would be interested in others' opinions.

 . . .

Richard L. Hess                              richard@richardhess.com
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