Re: toxic, toxic

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>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".

I have sometimes asked: Why do people sue power line companies ("EMF" fear) 
when the real cause seems to be the massmedia people who consistently 
misinterpret and scientific and technical investigations? Answer: Because 
those who become worried aim for getting money.
There were BTW a significant extra number of abortions in Sweden (ref. Some 
Swedish medical publication around 1987) a few months after the Chernobyl 
fallout in our country. The panic caused a lot of measures that made some 
people increase their risks of dying from various causes - especially by 
using cars to go to different places: Many probably increased their annual 
doses by moving to areas with higher natural background radiation. One Green 
party member I  mentioned earlier (the one who wanted to replace nuclear 
energy with safe energy like electricity - I still have that reference - a 
weekly Swedish magazine from around 1987) traveled some 120 miles - one 
"round trip" - to buy "becquerel free" milk. /My ideas only.

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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