Re: Lochbaum's bio - yo susan g

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Feb. 23



	On Feb. 21, Norm Cohen wrote (in part):



	"Iit [sic] was with great surprise that I read Susan G.'s [Gawarecki's]

post stating that Dave [Lochbaum] was not a nuclear engineer.



	"It is always distressing when rational discourse is lowered to the level

of personal attack."



	OK, what about "personal attack"?  May I draw your attention to John

Gofman's book "Poisoned Power," the foreword to the 1979 printing, pp. xvii

- xviii.  Gofman begins by "proving" that Three Mile Island was going to

cause "333 fatal cancers or leukemias."



	 He then writes:



	"As they look at the figures used in our fourth term [in Gofman's TMI

casualty equation] (one death per 300 man-rems), no doubt some so-called

atomic energy "experts" will again say we are overestimating the hazard of

radiation.  We are proud that we disagee with the "think-alikes" who

populate the advisory committees and high government posts in public

health.  Their jobs, grants, and appointments depend on their minimizing

the harmfulness of radiation so that the nuclear industry can go forward as

their bosses desire.



	"*Our* purpose is the objective analysis of the facts at our disposal.

Small wonder there is disagreement!  With our degrees, experience,

credentials, and proven abilities, we could each be earning $1,000 per day

as consultants *for* the nuclear power industry, if only we were willing to

confuse the public, muddy the logic, ignore enough evidence,and say that

nuclear power plants make "good neighbors,"  But we won't take the

industry's blood money.  You decide whose credibility is higher, when

experts disagree."

(Gofman's emphasis on "our" and "for".)



	(I had to look this up) -- blood money is money that is taken in payment

for killing someone, so Gofman is accusing the nuclear industry of homocide.



	I ask you, Norm, who is making personal attacks here?  



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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