Re: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95

["jjcohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

    Ruth,

        Are you suggesting that perception may not actually  be reality? What a radical concept!

                                                                                                                        Jerry





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    Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:09 PM

    Subject: Re: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95





    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.

    ruthweiner@aol.com