Re: Good Morning America

[pwn@tncnet.com (pwn)]

>Did anyone catch the Good Morning America program this morning.  Joan L.
>was, apparently, doing a promo for a special of hers (I think tonight) -
>part at Los Alamos.  Showed her with a Pu shape in a cladding.  She
>commented on the heat then came "one of the most hazardous substances known"
>and "a particle as small as the head of a pin inhaled will cause your
>death".  The quotes are not exact but close enough.  The death statement was
>the stating of an absolute fact.  All the discussions of the linear
>hypothesis we have been seeing really don't mean a thing until we get this
>kid of statement corrected.  A few words on Good Morning America repeated in
>more detail on a special program has more affect than tons of our words
>preaching to the choir.  How do you counter act this sort of thing?
>
>Charles (Tommy) Thomas
>Los Alamos National Laboratory
>TSA-11 MS k557
>Los Alamos, NM  87545
>505-665-1185
>chatho@lanl.gov
>
>
Tommy, 

The most effective way to counter tihs is to offer Joan a education in
proper terminology. This offer should be made with the condition that if she
declines to get the truth that the descrepancies in her program will be
shared with her advisaries.

tim