Crazies on the net

["John Moulder" <jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu>]

> Brain Rees wrote:
>
> About crazies, would it be totally inappropriate to repost some of 
> the "doozies" to radsafe?  They might be instructive (and some 
> even amusing). 

I don't think it is a good idea to repost this type of e-mail.  For  one thing, I do not want to encourage these type of people.  For  another thing, I trash all such e-mail and kill-file the authors.

But I will give you some excerpts from posted net commentary on  the FrontLine piece which will give you a feeling for the content.  

I think you will find them neither instructive nor amusing.

> As the nuclear scientists offer their human and animal sacrifices to 
> their science God in the name of "national security," while 
> making preparations to destroy the world, the American people 
> sit blissfully by, doing nothing, suffering the opprobrium of the 
> world community for not putting an end to the source of this evil. 

> I'm sure not all the experts are part of the  conspiracy.  I believe in Gofman,
> Stewart, Tamplin, Mancuso, Bertell, and sometimes Morgan.  I just  don't believe
> in you and your "so-called" experts.

> Nazi Germany did not die in 1945 but
> instead was alive and well in 1996 in the US.  The evil embodied in  Nazi facism
> had simply jumped hosts like a malignant parasite and was now  surviving and growing
> in the body of the United States.  The parallel genocidal missions  of both kinds of 
> camps became horribly evident to me... I realized that
> all the condemnation of the German people for not knowing and  preventing the
> holocaust that was transpiring in their own back yards,  behind concentration camp
> fences, applied equally to Americans who do nothing, who look the  other way
> prefering not to know, while the evils continue to propagate behind  the fences of
> the DOE...

>  It is really unbelievable how many innumerate people there are on this
>  thread who continue to claim mathematical infalibility with absolutely
>  no understanding of statistics.  It boggles the mind.  Radiation effects
>  have been clearly demonstrated statistically in downwind populations in
>  the Pacific, Utah and Kazakhstan (sp?) and this didn't take anywhere near
>  250 M people.

> My God!  I shudder at the thought of the reams of disinformation you 
> have sewed into those impressionable young minds.  No wonder the field 
> is in such a state of chaos.  You're probably one of those 
> oxymoronic "health physics" types. 


John Moulder (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu)