Doug,
It could have been worse. They could have put at the end: "Special thanks to Dr. Doug Minnema for Technical Assistant."
"Minnema, Douglas" <Douglas.Minnema@nnsa.doe.gov> wrote:
For what its worth, they contacted me also. I tried to appeal to their claim that they wanted to do a "technically accurate show", and suggested that the scenario itself was too unrealistic. After my response to them, they never responded back again.Doug Minnema, PhD, CHPNational Nuclear Security Administration, US DOE-----Original Message-----In a message dated 2/10/2003 8:27:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, cofer@NETTALLY.COM writes:
From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM [mailto:BLHamrick@AOL.COM]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:55 PM
To: cofer@NETTALLY.COM; rstrickert@signaturescience.com; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: CSI Miami I-131 Espisode
I agree; that was a pathethic display of health physics, and a shame too, because these shows just continue to perpetuate radiophobia among the masses, and we have a hard enough time getting out the facts without just trash. Since the action took place in Miami, it would have been under my agency's jurisdiction, not the NRC's, both I'm gratefull the Bureau's name didn't come up because I don't want any association with such junk.
Sadly, the writers did call and try to get assistance. They knew the Florida State program would have jurisdiction, and I tried to palm them off on you Mr. Cofer :-), but they weren't very interested in real life information.
I haven't watched the show yet, so don't know what they ended up doing. They initially wanted to try to "kill" someone with three diagnostic dosages of Tc-99m, b! ut at least I was able to convince them that was utterly preposterous. I told them their most effective "weapon" in a medical setting would be along the lines of a Co-60 therapy source, but that Robin Cook had already written that story, and suggested they try to get the rights to that, but they didn't think that suggestion was very helpful.
I still have the writer's phone number if anyone would like to call her, though I doubt she'd care about what she got wrong. She certainly wasn't interested in many facts that contradicted her little fantasy before she wrote the script.
Barbara