RE: Gould's Tooth Fairy Project (Link to article)

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 09:45 AM 11/4/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, there is no one associated with the Tooth Fairy Project that
>has an understanding of environmental transport.

There is no doubt that the way food is processed and prepared in this
country has changed dramatically in the last 40 years, and I'd be willing
to wager up to a nickel that the Tooth Fairy Project hasn't examined
whether there are processes now in use that tend to concentrate chemicals
such as Strontium in foods that children like. Ignoring such things as
transport mechanisms and food chain characteristics and jumping straight to
assigning blame to nuclear power plants seems a fair demonstration to the
preconceived notions the project started with. They had the answer before
they started; they are now simply deriving the question.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu
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