toxic, toxic

["Michael Stabin" <stabin@npd.ufpe.br>]

Dave Neil wrote:

> Remember, this is a journalist we're talking about. To them "highly
> radioactive plutonium" is one word.  I wonder how they would feel if
> physicists talked about "highly toxic ink"?  (Up to a few years ago,
> newsprint ink was heavy metal based. Lead, if I recall correctly.)

Another option - let's start using the term "highly toxic journalists" as a
single word.  As I recall, there were two deaths at TMI, occuring in car
accidents as people fled the area, whose panic was induced by, yes,
journalists.  Do journalists cause stress?  Does stress perhaps cause
cancer?  Hmmm, maybe "extremely toxic journalists".

Happy holidays and a safe Y2K to everyone.


Michael Stabin, PhD
Departamento de Energia Nuclear/UFPE
Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, 1000 - Cidade Universitaria
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Recife - PE
Brazil
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Fax  55-81-271-8250
E-mail stabin@npd.ufpe.br

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