Re[2]: Dr. Strangelove - OFF TOPIC

[Ruth Weiner <rfweine@SANDIA.GOV>]

I would like to echo Franz's sentiments (Vielen Dank, Franz!).  I belong to 
another limited list (former AAAS fellows) which has squelched "off-topic" 
discussions and now serves only as a job posting list that I essentially don't 
read.

Clearly only my own opinion.

Ruth Weiner
rfweine@sandia.gov

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Subject: Re: Dr. Strangelove - OFF TOPIC
Author:  schoenho@via.at at hubsmtp
Date:    5/5/98 4:59 PM


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Von: M. Woo <melissa@zelda.ehs.uiuc.edu>
An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu> 
Datum: Dienstag, 05. Mai 1998 20:52
Betreff: Dr. Strangelove - OFF TOPIC
     
     
>I had hoped that everyone would've realized before posting that this 
>thread is off-topic.  Let's kill this one off, please.
>
>Thanks in advance for your cooperation. 
>
>Melissa Woo
>RADSAFE List-owner/manager
>
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Yes, Melissa, you are of course right - as usual. Being the one who first 
mentioned this film I should feel guilty, but I do not. It was a real 
pleasure to watch the lively discussions about the cast of the film. I am 
quite sure that I have taped it once and I will search for it to see it.
     
Why I still think that this was a very good connection to radiation issues 
is simply the fact that I enjoyed to read that so many RADSAFERs had also 
other interests than only the daily work, even interest in "art", because 
this is what the film in question has to be regarded to be. So many issues 
were treated in this film - not only the question of nuclear war, but human 
reactions and the idea that the world may perish, because someone has not 
got the dime to call to prevent it. This was an extremely good example to 
show that our work has a lot of implication - of social nature, of political 
nature. We cannot see our work isolated, but it is part of social life. 
Whether we like it or not, we have to deal with the antis-"everything" and 
we have to take the responsibility to cope with the daily issues of 
radiation protection, food irradiation, nuclear waste, nuclear transport - 
though we know everything better than the public and the news media (I 
really mean that, I am not joking). Therefore I thank everybody who 
confirmed my opinion that radiation protection is not everything in the 
world and that health physicists are not one track minded!!
     
Franz