Re:Irradiated milk to be available in Feb 2000

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

At 11:35 AM 11/9/1999 -0600, you wrote:

>Instead of using the opportunity to educate the public, industry again skirts
>the issue by creative use of the English language in a deliberate attempt to
>"trick" the public

Very true. This attempt to deceive the public isn't any better or nobler
than the Tooth Fairy Project's attempts to deveive the public. And it seems
likely to backfire - people will distrust someone who has been found to
mislead them deliberately, and there's a strong probability that some
radiation-hating individual will notice the linguistic slight of hand and
contact the news media. Guess which news item will get more air time, the
announcement about "cold pasteurization" or exposing the deception?

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