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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- In-Reply-To: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV's message of 19 Nov 92 22:35:13 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 07:28:59
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- The trouble with comparing recommended exposure levels is that
- no Government agency will recommend exposures that will cause
- even one cancer case in the U.S. 40 years after the exposure.
- This is quite calculable for plutonium. I'll bet the model
- for cyanide is that if it doesn't make you sick right away,
- then the exposure is probably harmless. I suppose that is
- correct.
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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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