dealing with the public

[kearfott@srvr5.engin.umich.edu (Kimberlee Kearfott)]

Hi-- I thought the following quote, from a chemist, was germaine to our
profession

' Friends, chemist friends, if someone comes before you verbalizing anxiety
over a chemical in the environment, don't harden your hearts and assume a
scietific, analytical stance. Open your hearts, think of one of your
children waking at night from a nightmare of being run over by a
locomotive. Would you tell him (or her), "Don't worry, the risk of you
being bitten by a dog is greater?" '

--Ronald Hoffman, in The Same and Not the Same (Columbia University Press).


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                  Kim Kearfott, Sc.D., C.H.P.

Professor                           Director of Faculty Development
Program Advisor,                 & Faculty/Women in Engineering Office
  Radiological Health Engineering   College of Engineering
Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
    & Radiological Sciences
University of Michigan              University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104            Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2116

                 telephone: (313) 763-9117
                       fax: (313) 763-4540
                    e-mail: kearfott@umich.edu
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