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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: "Severe" errors by Greenpeace
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:09:41
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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- Message-ID: <STEINLY.93Jan27190941@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- References: <1993Jan13.050505.2746@truffula.sj.ca.us> <1jg9n3INNihe@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In-reply-to: Jym Dyer's message of 28 Jan 1993 01:53:19 GMT
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- In article <Jym.27Jan1993.1753@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
-
- > In article <1jg9n3INNihe@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >> How about their call for elimination of *ALL* uses of
- >> chlorine? I've heard of low-salt diets, but that was ridiculous!
- > Where is the severe error of fact?
-
- =o= The severe error of fact is in Carl Lydick's restatement.
-
- Well, a literal reading of the release could be interpreted to mean
- a ban on all chlorine chemistry - certainly a lot of readers took
- it that way.
- The issue was severely clouded because at the time (a branch of?)
- the California Greens was literally and stridently calling for a ban on all
- chlorine chemistry.
-
- was exactly one intelligent comment on the matter, which I'm
- attaching below. Perhaps it's an appropriate query to send off
- to greenpeace-knocks?
-
- ================================================================
- => From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- => Subject: Re: ... Austria Releases Study of its Chlorine Industry
-
- Come on, guys, deliberate misreadings of the Greenpeace paper to imply
- salt should be banned serve only to cheapen the debate. Clearly they
- meant organochlorine compounds.
- ...
-
-
- It is quite clear they mean organochlorines from the context,
- it was still quite an amusing exercise in pedantry.
- Next step of course is whether acetylcholine chloride
- complexes count as organochloric compounds :-)
-
- | Steinn Sigurdsson |I'm not the one to tell |
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