From: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 94 04:06:31 PDT
To: bdolan@well.sf.ca.us
Subject: Re: U & Pu is good for U
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In message <199408252138.OAA15395@well.sf.ca.us> Brad Dolan writes:
> >On the other hand I say that such studies are poor criteria for
> >judging the effects of radiation intended to do the maximum possible
> >harm.  
> 
> Well, these studies are about all we have to go on right now.  The
> wartime residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki do provide a large set of 
> folks exposed to "radiation intended to do the maximum possible harm" 
> but, darn it, none of them were wearing dosimeters.  People do study 
> these groups, making educated guesses about doses, but it's hard to
> draw precise conclusions on that basis.

There is a Sufi parable about a guy who loses something on a dark
street.  His friend finds him searching the ground carefully at the
corner under a street light.  He asks him what he is doing, and he
explains that he dropped something.  "Where?"  "Down the street."
"Then why are you looking here?"  "Because there is a light down here."
--
Jim Dixon