Re: Medis bias

[Jose, Julio, Rozental]

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From: "Grimm, Lawrence" <LGrimm@FACNET.UCLA.EDU>

To: "'Susan L Gawarecki'" <loc@icx.net>; "RADSAFE"

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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 12:19 AM

Subject: RE: Medis bias







> Anti-nuclear people want to shut down all nuclear power and take away

nuclear medicine.



The closer the community move toward accepting the uses of nuclear energy,

the faster the anti-nuclear people move on to new demands. Since the sources

of risk are virtually infinite in number, subject only to the fertility of

the imagination, there is no limit on what anti-nuclear can be spent to

bring conflict within society. However it seems to me that to be against

nuclear medicine is not among such fertility of the imagination. Substantial

part of the public, for reasons rooted in culture, tradition, psychology an

attitude, continues to doubt assurances of nuclear safety and prefers to

believe that any source of radiation is inevitably harmful and that a

nuclear failure cannot be avoided. However, even to those most radical to

accept that  any source of radiation is inevitably harmful no one among them

is against nuclear medicine and want to take away such practice.



Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel







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