Re: Diet to counter acute radiation dose?

["Dr. Marvin Goldman" <mgoldman@ucdavis.edu>]

At 11:08 AM 1/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hasn't anyone else seen the Star Trek: Next Generation Ep where Data
>gets amnesia and unknowingly brings a radioactively contaminated metal
>into a primative village?  He then invents the instruments to discover the
>radiation source,  analyzes its impact on the population, and in a matter of
>hours invents (reinvents?) a broth that **cures** the damage done by the
>radiation.  I have to admit that I love Sci Fi, and STNG is one of my
>favorites, but that one hit a little to close to home.  I'm afraid of what
kind
>of message a show like that gives to the general public. 
>
>If Data could discover/invent the cure for radiation in a few hours, with
>only "primative" instruments, then why haven't all the scientists invented
>it here and now?  I'm surprised the conspiracy theorists haven't claimed
>that a cure exists and the government is covering it up.  Or did I just miss
>that theory?
>
>Joelle Key
>TN-DRH
>jkey@mail.state.tn.us
>(see I can learn :-) )
>
Can't resist this.
If you too were an android, you could find the cure in a few hours.  Now to
identify the android in the government and our work is done. 
Marvin Goldman