Re: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/17/04 8:25:06 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 

vargo@physicist.net writes:



> Actually, there's a lot of validity in that  A lot of us could use more 

> training in effective communication, 



If you know what you are talking about, and are enthusiastic about it  and 

about communicating it, and accept disagreement, you don't need training in 

communication.  If you aren't, all the training in the world won't help you.



psychology, leadership (the right-brain kind of stuff).  I can recall many 

instances 

> where radiation workers, members of the public, etc. have been turned 

> "anti" because of dismissive or condescending attitudes,



Oh my!  Had i been put off by "condescending attitudes," I wouldn't have 

succeeded at anything!  Whatever happened to "Sticks and stones may break my bones 

but names will never hurt me?"  Or was that saved for the lower-middle-class 

children of the 1940s, like me.  Or are people so easily beguiled by 

sycophancy that they can't take ordinary disagreement and  different attitudes?



 ineptly communicated explanations of risk, or the "we know what's good for 

you" 

> attitude.  Like or not, personal perceptions become personal realities and 

> feelings become beliefs.

> 

Sure, like the folks who thought laetrile could cure cancer.  Or the people 

who won't use seat belts (in the words of Consumer Reports: "Americans think 

they are immortal until the moment of impact").  Or the people who think aliens 

landed at Roswell, NM.  Or...



Ruth





Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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