[Peace-discuss] Japanese warning

[C. G. Estabrook]

I'd say that there's a good chance they are.  Have you been reading Bill Keller 
recently?

The Times regularly puts into practice the poet's advice:

     Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
     Success in Circuit lies
     Too bright for our infirm Delight
     The Truth's superb surprise...


On 3/12/11 6:29 PM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> So what did Broad conclude about "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?"?
> He's not only written for the NYT, and moreover, not everyone who writes for 
> the Times is contaminated….
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2011, at 5:55 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> Given the tie-ups between the NYT and the nuclear industry, I'd think we'd at 
>> least want a second opinion...
>>
>> The author of this piece is a long-time Timesman who's written on and perhaps 
>> contributed to US science propaganda.  In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq 
>> he published "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" (2001), and 
>> in 2007 he did a "Discovery Channel" program called "Nuclear Jihad: Can 
>> Terrorists Get the Bomb?"
>>
>>
>> On 3/12/11 5:17 PM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
>>> A fair report by William Broad on the dangers of radioactivity from the 
>>> severely damaged  Japanese reactor. We don't yet know the intensity of its 
>>> radiations, and so we don't know if they are a serious problem. We are 
>>> constantly exposed to nuclear radiations, and the safety limits imposed by 
>>> the responsible agencies are considered super safe; there could be very high 
>>> multiples of those limits and yet have no observed effects on human health 
>>> (despite the claims of someone like Wasserman).
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/science/13radiation.html?hp
>>>