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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!pmafire!russ
- From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.160312.20280@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:03:12 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: OVERVIEW: "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Coverup"
- Summary:
- References: <1992Dec23.213037.8938@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: WINCO
- Keywords: statistical estimates of excess # of deaths, radioactive pollution
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- In article <1992Dec23.213037.8938@odin.corp.sgi.com> dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) writes:
- >
- >
- > This post contains the Overview (beginning 78 lines below) section of
- > the updated 1991 edition of "Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Radiation, High-
- > Level Coverup," a vitally important book providing the kind of analysis
- > needed to offset the mind-numbing "Everything's o.k.--there's no
- > immediate health danger--go back to sleep everyone" sort of mantra
- > consitently chanted by government and nuclear industry officials
- > everytime there has been an accident at a nuclear facility. It is
- > critical to understand however, that even the routine and "legal"
- > releases and emissions from all nuclear reactors are followed by
- > consistent increases in infant mortality and excess deaths for people
- > living downwind from such sites. This book helps quantify the growing
- > body of research and knowledge regarding the absolutely lethal nature
- > of nuclear technology. There is no such thing as "the peaceful atom"
- > where the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear techonology as a whole is
- > concerned.
- > -- ratitor
- >
-
- Having purchased and read this book, I recommend it without reservation...
-
- _as a paramount example of the abuse of science_.
-
- If the authors missed an opportunity to molest, torture, or corrupt the
- data, I didn't see it. What is funny (pathetic) is that the authors may
- believe some or all of what they wrote, and that some of the readers may
- accept it as an approximation of truth.
-
- This rivals R. M. Nixon's explanations of the Watergate affair for
- absurdity.
-