RE: Medis bias

[John, Jacobus]

Dr. Marcus,

Thank you for the reply and information.  



It totally escapes me how groups like this can justify

their bogus statements.  Do they think that scientific

studies showing no risks for radiation will not

overturn their outragious claims?



--- Carol Marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu> wrote:

> At 06:44 AM 7/13/03 -0700, John Jacobus wrote:

> . . .

> 

> 

> Dear Radsafers:

> 

> Dan Hirsch and The Committee to Bridge to Gap (CBG)

> want to get rid of 

> nuclear medicine.  Some years ago, while The Society

> of Nuclear Medicine 

> and the American College of Nuclear Physicians

> (SNM/ACNP) were supporting 

> Ward Valley as a LLRW site, CBG started spreading

> rumors that nuclear 

> medicine was the cause of the large amount of breast

> cancer we see 

> today.  I, particularly, have come under personal

> attack.  Fortunately, 

> attacking medicine is bad strategy, so CBG then

> tried to get rid of its 

> enemies in nuclear medicine by exempting them from

> the provisions of 

> antinuclear bills coming before the California

> Legislature.  Unfortunately, 

> CBG is so dumb that it didn't know enough to really

> exempt nuclear 

> medicine, so we would have been caught and harmed

> anyway.  When we opposed 

> some recent antinuke legislation, and the bill was

> revised, we were 

> "punished" by removing the incomplete exemption and

> killed equally along 

> with everyone else.  Hopefully the bills will not

> pass.

> 

> Rest assured that the true antinuclear fanatics want

> to end all use of 

> radioactive material in the United States and the

> rest of the world as well.

> 

> Ciao, Carol

> 

> Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.

> <csmarcus@ucla.edu>





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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