AW: Dr. Durakovic at Port Hope / Two-headed animals

[Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

Björn, 



You should not forget that we have millions or rather billions of

pictures of two-headed eagles ("double-eagle") in Austria and our former

empire. I cannot say when they were first found and therefore

incorporated in our coat of arms, but one is for sure: It was before the

first man-made radionuclides emerged on our planet. It must have been in

the medieval times. Maybe the grand-grand-grand....-father of the first

eagle sniffed radon from a cave or drank water which contained uranium

and his testicles accumulated it and so on and so forth. You cannot

deny, that there is a faint probability!



Double headed animals are very wide spread on coat of arms.



To be serious: Durakovic claims that he has seen a two-headed baby in

Russia as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident. Russia was hardly

affected by the Chernobyl accident. Severly affected were southern parts

of Bjelorussia and to a smaller extent northern parts of Ukraine, not to

talk about the wide spread contamination in many countries of Europe. I

have never, not even from the most aggressive anti-nuclear sites or

people heard or read anything about a baby with two heads. What had

Durakovic to do there? All the (false) claims of those sites and people

concentrate on fission products and I never heard about any claims that

uranium would have caused health effects. Durakovic is not able to

distinguish fission products from uranium. Furthermore he cannot

distinguish uranium from daughter products. The lung cancer cases, which

have undoubtedly been observed in miners (but not only in uranium

miners!) are caused by the daughter products of radon. Radon itself does

not cause lung cancer - just another wrong story very far distributed.

Those affected are the miners but not members of the public. 



During the last centuries noblemen in Europe up to kings and emperors

used to collect "curiosities" (not to be mistaken for the US description

of "curios"), where all kind of then unusual things like shells,

oistrich eggs, corals, deformed animals, big crystals etc. were eagerly

collected. I remember that I have seen in one or the other a snake with

two heads and similar malformed animals. There even exists a museum at

the medical faculty in Vienna, where terrible malformed human beings

have been collected - but as far as I know, this museum is not

accessible for the public. We hear very often about Siamese twins, so

these malformations are really not so seldom. The parents of these twins

have sure not been exposed to uranium. 



A veterinarian (a scientist) told me, when I asked him after the

Chernobyl accident about those rumors of the calves with two heads etc.,

that such malformations are relatively common, but in previous days a

farmer or breeder would never have told anybody about such a calf,

because at the rural sites this is still regarded as a very bad omen,

which would bring bad luck not only to the farmer but to the whole

community. He suggested, that after the Chernobyl this might have

changed in the affected area, because they could blame the accident and

in any case claim compensation. 



As a former collector of old glass the great items shown on the web-site

you gave the link for make me envious!



Best regards,



Franz



Franz Schoenhofer

PhD, MR iR

Habicherg. 31/7

A-1160 Vienna

AUSTRIA

phone -43-0699-1168-1319





> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

> Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-

> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] Im Auftrag von Bjorn Cedervall

> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 23:26

> An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Betreff: RE: Dr. Durakovic at Port Hope / Two-headed animals

> 

> I also saw a two-headed stuffed calf of some kind around 1962 - in the

> Natural History Museum in Stockholm. It was probably relatively old

> already

> then so it can hardly have been nuclear power generated. Here is

another

> challenge - a two headed eagle - found on a bottle from the year 1751:

> (scroll down - sorry about the Swedish text - the bottle itself was

found

> in

> a crop field not far south of Stockholm):

>

http://www.antikviteter.net/antikprat/messages/188/37864.html?1079383230

> 

> How about _suggesting_ a hypothesis here: I exclude ideas involving

> uranium

> in the ceramics reaching the gonads of the eagle (politically correct

> stuff

> can violate logic)?

> 

> Actually this is serious stuff about risk communication. After the

> Chernobyl

> explosion people ran to the media with unusually large dandelions and

> other

> 2-3 standard devations observations. The media were often quick to

swallow

> that type of biology.

> 

> My personal initiative only,

> 

> Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

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> ----------------------------------------

> >According to the good doctor, it is quite

> amazing that the original folk in Paducah are not all dead and the

workers

> all replaced by all the two-headed babies that were born in 1953.

After

> all, "two heads are better than one".   I actually did see a stuffed

> two-headed calf at the Univerisity of California at Davis back in

about

> 1962.  Apparently that wasn't the only two-headed calf ever born.

> 





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