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Re: Re: Vanity Fair Article on DU - with an Ed Battle recommendation of Rokke!
My DOD friends and I have briefly conferred on this article. They essentially told me that the author apparently had no intention to be objective.
The article presents nothing original and is little more that an articulate rehash of the usual tired old material from activist websites.
I think that it is well known that Ed Battle regrets his hyperbole on Rokke's OERs, but it is better for Ed to speak for himself on this matter.
It would be nice if Rokke would also release the words that were written when he was let go from the Army Chemical School. Of course, if he did that, it would violate the activists' tenet of ignoring anything that doesn't support their point of view.
The article's author has access to my and others' previous rebuttals of Rokke's drivel and chose to ignore them (see previous paragraph). The consensus of my DOD friends and me is that the time spent writing a letter to the editor would be better spent contemplating our navels.
Bob C
>
> From: John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: 2004/11/15 Mon AM 11:36:45 EST
> To: Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>,
> "RADSAFE \(E-mail\)" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Subject: Re: Vanity Fair Article on DU - with an Ed Battle recommendation of Rokke!
>
> I do not know if Vanity Fair is a "liberal" magazine.
> It is certainly not a scientific journal by any
> stretch of the imagination.
>
> Yes, I do believe that someone needs to contact the
> editor and author of the article. Maybe a second,
> realistic article could be written, but at the least a
> letter to the editor needs to be sent.
>
> --- Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The December issue od Vanity Fair has a major
> > article on DU and its health
> > hazards.
> > If I knew nothing about the topic I would definitely
> > be influenced to
> > believe that DU was truly deadly!
> >
> > and the list of effects is truly staggering (right
> > down to "burning semen"
> > - the effects of which are described in great
> > deatail...) and they have
> > highlighted a new catch phrase "DU-positive" (in an
> > obvious attempt to
> > compare its danger to AIDS!).
> >
> > As for Rokke, he gets a majot exposure, including
> > his Dec 1995 appraisal
> > from Ed Battle "Captain Rokke has repeatedly
> > demonstrated the ability to
> > function well above his current rank and is as
> > effective as any I have
> > known" ......... "his achievements have been
> > absolutely phenomenal"......
> >
> > Maybe a letter to the editor from an expert in the
> > field is called for?
> >
> > I know that Vanity Fair is an extremely "liberal"
> > magazine, but it has a
> > pretty wide readership.....
> >
> > Regards
> > Doug Aitken
> >
> > Doug Aitken
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> >
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