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Are you implying that anyone who supports the use of LNT as a prudent precaution
for planning purposes is dishonest? Such moral certainty and intolerance
for other points of view is NOT an indication of good science.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
Jerry Cohen wrote:
Is it ever too late
for honesty?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:27
AM
Subject: Re: hospital contamination
incident
1. Perception is reality; just deal with it. This isn't
going to change. The health physics profession has gone to great
lengths to establish radiation as a uniquely dangerous hazard, which, by
the way, requires lots of health physicists to protect the public.
We wrote the regulations, through groups such as the NCRP and ICRP.
It's too late to say, "just kidding." I'm sure the "no serious consequences"
philosophy is what Brookhaven management invoked to delay installing monitoring
wells for the HFBR. Now, it's the former HFBR.
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