Re: Nova - Dirty Bombs - Who is their expert - FYI

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

At 05:48 AM 2/26/2003 -0800, John Jacobus wrote:


Yes, John J., this is the PRECISE action that causes most people to say,

"they're hiding something." I think you have to tell them the

TRUTH, but there has to be the complete TRUTH. In other words, tell them

there is radiation, tell them it's level is low and then try and make it

understandable about how low (three chest X-rays), etc.


Experts cannot treat the populace like babies. 


Cheers?


Richard



> John, 
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> I assume you are joking. 
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>  John Andrews <andrewsjp@chartertn.net> wrote:
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> > My thought while reading this is that perhaps we should ignore the 
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> > radioactivity of the dirty bomb. I mean hide the reality of the 
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> > radioactivity from the general population! The bomb can do local damage
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> > and the radioactivity will do little real damage even over the lifetime
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> > of the exposed individuals. If they are never told of the 
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> > radioactivity, then the psychological trauma will never occur. What 
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> > would happen if we did not look for radioactivity or radiation? What
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> > would happen if we took our readings and called them all zero to the
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> > press and the government controllers? Would we all not be better off in
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> > the long run. The Soviet Union did this in Chelybinsk! Of course that
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> > was a MAJOR release. But they did not tell anyone about it for what, 25
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> > years! Nor do most people in the US, or the world for that matter, know
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> > anything about that event. Perhaps this would be a better way to handle
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> > the dirty bomb scenario.
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> > . . .
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> -- John
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> John Jacobus, MS
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> Certified Health Physicist
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> e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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