John Stossel now doing Peer Review?

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RADSAFERS: I wasn't aware that John Stossel was peer reviewed...



I find the Network Television stations to be the best science too--that's 

where I get all of mine. I have made a few comments within the email below. I'll 

have to call Stossel today for an interview about radiation matters in 

America. He's the guy right?

Thanks for this lead. Louis Ricciuti



  Funny thing is this: If Stossel went to Niagara to do an expose, I wonder 

who on this board would be citing him then? Answer: None, and he would be 

derided as a hack from the media.  Ha and LOL!



  Subj: Is John Stossel Peer Reviewed?  

  Date: 4/1/04 3:03:51 AM Eastern Standard Time 

  From: NiagaraNet

    

  Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:06:19 -0600

  From: "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>

  Subject: RE: Love Canal: Understanding nonscience



> video made by John Stossel called "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?"

> modern contradictory attitudes toward hazardous substances.



> There is already clear evidence that mental attitude has much to do with

> cancer survival. The mechanics of cancer induction and promotion are

> still under debate, but it is not a big leap to assume that many

> psychological factors, including depression and fear, may be cofactors.



  NO WORRY ABOUT LAW SUITS with the above: As long as the industry keeps on 

feeding the public sleeping pills, I guess the Shepards could never be sued for 

depressing anyone. SEE: Lucy Hunts Uranium, Mickey Rooney in The Atomic Kid 

and others.



  I see that only certain RADSAFE members can "assume" and "leap."



> I have always been interested in thinking about how many cancers may

> have been caused over recent decades by the public fear induced both by

> organizations who intentionally misrepresent risks for political gain

> and by media organizations who intentionally or unintentionally scare

> the public unnecessarily. 



   Does the quote from above: ["induced both by organizations who 

intentionally misrepresent risks for political gain"] include the military and 

government?

Union Carbide, DuPont and others? Since I have written articles about the 

subject, would this make me a litigant?



   I WONDER about lingering fears associated with above ground testing, Utah 

deaths, lies being foisted upon the public about "cleanups" (Love Canal was 

only covered), all the GATES in DC, poisoned milk and cereal, early FDA drug 

releases, University testing of unwitting subjects (including at Vanderbilt), 

atomic veterans under mushroom clouds and the Plutonium Experiments of HREX.

  Lots of reason for fear there!



> This may one day represent a very substantial class action lawsuit. All 

that is > > > needed is some model of this effect, or some story in the popular 

press, e.g. "Fear > mongering may have caused up to 250,000 cancers in the US 

between 1970-> > > > 2000". [Note the qualifiers "may have", "up to".] 



   INTERESTING is the use of the word "mongering." The use of this word was 

usually prescribed to WAR MONGERING. In this case, it would refer to weapons 

mongering, etc. Who has caused cancers...Those depressing folks trying to have 

materials taken out of the human environment, or those that have gleefully put 

it into the environment in the first place?  ...3, 2, 1,  KABOOM, "Look at the 

pretty mushroom cloud and listen to the load BANG." (Said with laughter like 

that of a twelve year old school girl--that will shortly need thyroid 

surgery.)  



> We know of course that confirmed deaths were caused at TMI by people 

fleeing in > fear (of radiation exposure of less than a mSv) and dying in car 

accidents.



> Mike



   There will always be something that will out weigh the importance of human 

health. Mongering and money will always be those.  L. Ricciuti