[ RadSafe ] Clinton Takes on Uranium Inhalation Poisoners

[bobcherry at cox.net]

You know that if health physicists were a disreputable group (and I maintain that we aren't), then we would concede all of the activists' alarms and hysteria about severe radiation hazards at levels of ionizing and nonionizing radiation exposure less than 10 or so times above, at, or below environmental levels. Then we could increase our salaries, membership in our profession, span of control, prestige, number of academic and leadership appointments, number and value of research grants, etc., accordingly.

Yet we don't concede the activists' "points," because we prefer to tell the truth. So we remain as we are: responsible scientists, with our self-respect and scientific reputations intact, who provide our best advice to our employers and to the public.

Bob

> 
> From: dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com
> Date: 2005/06/28 Tue AM 11:44:20 EDT
> To: James Salsman <james at bovik.org>
> CC: radsafe at radlab.nl,  radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Clinton Takes on Uranium Inhalation Poisoners
> 
> James Salsman wrote:
> 
> >On the contrary, the Taiwan apartment-dwellers were not inhaling
> >toxicants.
> 
> Of course they were inhaling toxicants, just as all people do.  We just
> don't know which toxicants they were inhaling and how much they were
> inhaling.
> 
> Also, according to the DU "poisoning" theories, the Bethlehem workers
> should have expressed the Gulf War Syndrome symptoms long before the Gulf
> War Syndrome symptoms were identified.  By the time the Gulf War came
> around, the symptoms expressed by the Gulf War veterns should have been
> quickly noted to be the "Bethlehem Millworker Syndrome" symptoms.  You may
> recall that the current DU activist assertion is that the non-cancer
> symptoms from uranium dust exposure would be evident long before any cancer
> symptoms would be observed.  The non-cancer symptoms should also be
> expressed at a much higher rate than the cancer symptoms, if the cancer
> symptoms were ever expressed at all.
> 
> In addition, the reporter's comment that "Many of those workers got sick"
> could be made regarding any group of workers or non-workers anywhere.
> 
> Perhaps, Mr. Salsman's technical expertise will be helpful in explaining
> the reporter's claim that, "It got so hot it could burn a blister on the
> skin the size of a silver dollar."
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Don Kosloff
> 
> 
> 
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