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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
- In-Reply-To: govender@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za's message of 28 Jul 92 10:35:31 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:05:25
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- Actually, I don't believe Nader made any comparative argument. He
- raised the bogey of low level microwave radiation, demanded that
- the ovens be banned, and that was it.
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- I should have been more careful in my original statement. What I had
- in mind is that no-one has ever been injured in the way Nader
- postulated - by the microwave radiation generated in the oven. I knew
- about injuries caused by non-homogeneous heating. Hospitals warn
- against heating baby bottles in microwave ovens, because they don't
- trust the parents to obey the instruction to shake the bottle after
- heating it and check the temperature.
-
- Would Yodaiken agree that Nader should have done a comparative
- analysis? That's my main point - that environmentalists are outraged
- by any suggestion that they should think about possible bad
- consequences of getting their way. We have seen expressions
- of this outrage on this newsgroup.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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