RE: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95

["Riely, Brian P." <brian.riely@ngc.com>]

Carl Sagan?



Wasn't he the guy who was oppose to G.H.W. Bush going to war with Sadam because, if we went to war with S.H., he would light the oil field which would cause a nuclear winter.  Well, I guess I should give Professor Sagan partial credit because he was correct about S.H. setting fire to the oil fields.



-----Original Message-----

From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]

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Subject: 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 

> 

> 





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"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





	

		

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