[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95
I believe that it was in Carl Sagan's book, "The
Demon-Haunted World," that some psychologist believe
people were abduced by aliens from space. It has to
be true because the patients said so.
--- jjcohen <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET> wrote:
>
> Ruth,
> Are you suggesting that perception may not
> actually be reality? What a radical concept!
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: RuthWeiner@aol.com
> To: vargo@physicist.net ; jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET ;
> joseroze@netvision.net.il ; RadSafeInst@cableone.net
> ; bobcherry@cox.net ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> 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
>
>
=====
+++++++++++++++++++
"We cannot escape danger, or the fear of danger, by crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To
unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the
text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail,
with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/