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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Why do they hate us? (Greenpeace and Research)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.162115.24164@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <JMC.92Dec15105733@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <Jym.19Dec1992.1437@naughty-peahen> <JMC.92Dec19172552@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:21:15 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec19172552@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I believe the book advertised as follows was given as an example of
- >Greenpeace research.
- >
- >=+= And their October/November/December 1991 issue contains this
- >information:
- >
- > _Playing_With_Fire_ $10.00
- > In theory, properly designed incinerators get
- > rid of toxic waste. In reality, they create
- > more pollution and health problems. This 63-
- > page book is a must for any activist fighting
- > a hazardous waste incinerator and for any
- > person living downwind from one.
- >
- >
- >If a book is going to be advertised such a way, you can be very sure
- >that no essay will be included that casts the slightest doubt on the
- >total virtue of the Greenpeace position. There will be no maybes in
- >it. It will have, however, a collection of remarks that can be lifted
- >and spouted verbatim at hearings or copied onto posters or banners.
-
- I have offered to make a copy of a portion of this report and mail
- it to John so he can check it out without contributing any money
- to Greenpeace. He has apparently declined, preferring to judge
- the report by its title and its advertisements. It does not have
- any catchy phrases that I remember and the many tables and graphs
- would not work very well on a poster at a rally.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
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