Re: radsafe-digest V1 #784

["Erik F. Shores" <eshores@LANL.GOV>]

Ruth--



As I was listening to that show during my commute, I was happy to hear your 

call!



At 02:48 PM 5/15/2003 -0500, RuthWeiner wrote:

>...a National Public Radio call-in show about DU, and I thought you all 

>might be interested in the experience.  The guests were a retired 

>professor (chemistry, I think) a Gulf war vet, and a local anti-nuke.



I agree with your assessment--especially regarding the "made up stuff". As 

an example, the vet made multiple references towards respiratory illness 

suffered by himself and family. He was "sure it was the DU". Fortunately, a 

later caller asked him if he was smoker. The answer was "yes" and there was 

further speculation that might actually be the cause of his respiratory 

problems.



The retired chemistry professor was from Colorado State University. Also, 

you were quite diplomatic with respect to the Gulf War Syndrome comments 

(for those unaware of the program, the comments were quite unbelievable).



Although you might feel as though you "didn't get anywhere", I'd submit 

that a listener who was truly interested would have taken some of the 

rationale comments as the impetus for further research...



Best wishes,

Erik

________________________________________

Erik F. Shores

Los Alamos National Laboratory

X-5, Diagnostics Applications

Mailto:eshores@lanl.gov

505.665.7643 (phone)

505.665.3046 (facsimile) 



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