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- From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.230234.10773@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:02:34 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Cover-Up: 49+ years old, going strong, and killing us all
- Summary:
- References: <1993Jan21.155627.21214@mont.cs.missouri.edu> <1993Jan21.212817.20801@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: WINCO
- Keywords: Ratcliffe: deception, gibberish, contradictions, illogic
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- In article <1993Jan21.212817.20801@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.155627.21214@mont.cs.missouri.edu> dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) writes:
- >>
- >> Excerpts from an exceptionally lucid speech follow (speech begins 178 lines
- >> below this one) given by author and journalist Norman Solomon at UCSC on
- >> February 24, 1992 articulating the critical issue of the almost 50-year-old
- >> nuclear age and industry and its continuous promotion by official
- >> mythologies about the "peaceful atom," about how we are "safe" from the
- >> deadly toxicity of high-level and low-level radioactive material, fallout,
- >> waste, and contamination of the biosphere, and about how the production and
- >> operation of nuclear power plants and the nuclear weapons assembly line--not
- >> to mention "temporary" radioactive waste sites--make us "secure." --ratitor
- >
- >Dave,
- >
- >None of your long-winded posts have yet to say anything about "natural
- >radiation." Fallout and the nuclear power cycle contribute less than 2%
- >to the human dose. I have posted the numbers previously.
- >
- >You have also not responded to the questions that I have emailed to you,
- >asking for figures to back up your erroneous and ridiculous claims. Is
- >your feed to the net only one-way? I haven't seen any followup arguments.
- >
- >>"who can do? ratmandu!"
- >
- >Apparently not.
- >
- >Tino
- >--
-
- For what it is worth, probably very little, I support this query.
- Although it violates no great principle or regulation, Usenet is
- becoming a dumping ground for "gateway-node-transmission" posters, who
- apparently don't know enough about the quality of the material they pass
- on to defend it. This eliminates dialogue, the great strength of the
- Net.
-
- These actions may be a reflection of the intellectual and ethical
- limitations of those posting to the activism newsgroups rather than
- individual decisions and analyses. While it wouldn't be completely
- fair, one could draw some conclusions about the quality of the material
- posted from the shy nature of those who post it.
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