RE: Helen Caldicott

["Levin, Robert" <levin@OSI.SYLVANIA.com>]

Can anyone comment on the potential liability of urging such a boycott
using the basis that injury will occur if there is no acceptable
evidence that the injury could occur?

Robert E. Levin
levin@osi.sylvania.com




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>From: 	Holloway3@aol.com[SMTP:Holloway3@aol.com]
>Sent: 	Thursday, February 26, 1998 1:46 PM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Helen Caldicott
>
>Not long ago Helen Caldicott urged members of the public to boycott Hershey
>products because they are made near Three Mile Island.  I wrote to her asking
>for evidence of contamination in the vicinity of Three Mile Island and
>another
>location that she mentioned.  I have some experience in monitoring
>environmental samples in that particular area and believe that her views are
>ridiculous in this regard.  So far, she has not responded to my request.  I
>have posted the details on  the following web site:  
>
>http://www.ntanet.net/publicinfo.html
>
>I think it is useful for those of us in the field to refute at least the more
>absurd statements of the anti-nuclear crowd.  Helen Caldicott is one of the
>most extreme of that group.  I am still waiting for her answer, which I
>believe will never be provided because such evidence does not exist.  I am
>sending her a copy of this note.  The internet represents a very inexpensive
>way to counter the views of people such as Helen Caldicott.  Let's use it, so
>that anytime someone uses a search engine to search on certain key words,
>they
>will get both sides of controversy and not just the viewpoint that Helen
>Caldicott is out to save the world from the "devil" of radioactivity.  
>
>                                                                     Robert
>Holloway
>                                                                     roberth@
>n
>tanet.net 
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