orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) (07/14/86)
> >>If you want to show that nuclear power is too dangerous, then simply > >>show a power source that can produce the same amount of power with a > >>lower cost in human life. Remember that coal emmissions kill an > >>estimated 10-50 thousand people a year and that radon gas (which > >>collects in tightly insulated homes) is suspected to cause up to 10 > >>thousand cancers a year. [Michael Stein] > > > >I read a book that did an analysis like this a few years ago, "The > >Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear". I don't recall the author's > >name. [Joel Upchurch] > > Petr Beckmann's book appeared about ten years ago. Most thoughtful > opponents of nuclear power are familiar with his line of reasoning. > I recently posted an article explaining some of the problems with > this count-the-dead-bodies-per-megawatt-hour type of argument. So > far I have seen no response. > > Richard Carnes Michael Stein previously cited Petr Beckman in regards to "Yellow Rain" (i.e. bee feces). I wonder if Mr. Stein is aware of Canadian research in the past year which examined random samples of Southeast Asian residents and discovered incidences of mycotoxin illnesses totally unassociated with "Yellow Rain"? The researchers concluded that such illnesses were probably due to fungal infections. Precisely one of the explanations given by Meselson et al in their Scientific American article on "Yellow Rain". But this probably won't mean a thing to the Reagan Administration. Their modus operandi is the same one used so well by Goebbels: "Repeat a lie long enough, and people will come to believe it" tim sevener whuxn!orb