Re: HPS Objective

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

August 7, 1997

What about "unsafe" in place of "unnecessary"?

Otto

At 09:53 AM 8/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Maybe "unefficacious" would be a good word, but maybe it is not a common 
>enough word to avoid the elitist labelling implications.
>
>
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>On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Bernard L Cohen wrote:
>
>> > 
>> >         The objective of the Society is the protection of people and 
>> > 	the environment from unnecessary exposure to radiation.
>> 
>> 	--Souldn't "unnecessary" be changed to "harmful", or "unnecessary
>> and potentially harmful"?
>> 
>> 
>
>
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