[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: Helen Caldicott -Reply
This sounds very similar to the lawsuit of cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey. She
urged(?) her faithful viewers to boycott beef products and the cattle industry
saw a decrease in profits.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anthony F. (Tony) Armagno
Northeast Utilities Millstone Station
Tele: (860) 437-2519
E-Mail: armagaf@gwsmtp.nu.com
According to Cowboy Wisdom: There's more ways to skin a cat than stickin' his
head in a boot jack and jerkin' on his tail!
>>> "Levin, Robert" <levin@OSI.SYLVANIA.com> 02/26/98 02:28pm >>>
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
>----------
>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
>