🚀 go-pugleaf

John Moulder wrote:
> 
> > >Anti-nuclear activists mobilize against Frontline documentary
> > >
> > >Originally published in Current, March 31, 1997
> > >
> > >By Karen Everhart Bedford
> > >
> > >Environmentalists and consumer groups are objecting to an
> > >upcoming Frontline documentary that suggests irrational public fear
> > >has driven America's rejection of nuclear power.
> >
> > Does this mean that these people have actually seen it? All of the
> > people objecting? How did they all get to see an April 22 broadcast?
> 
> They can't have seen it, because as of 4 April, it was still being edited.
> They are reacting to a three-page press release (which does not appear to be
> on the net)
> 
> > So the members of these five organizations have already seen this
> > program?
> 
> No
> 
> > And they want everyone else to join in the protest sight unseen?
> 
> Yup...
> Guess they're worried that someone might learn something
> 
> > Why are they so desperate to give a documentary they object to all
> > this publicity? I mean, Frontline isn't exactly up there with 60
> > Minutes and Dateline in the ratings.
> 
> With this sort of advance "publicity" it may be (:
> 
> > >"This is basically an intimidation campaign," said Jon Palfreman,
> > >a veteran producer for Nova and Frontline who now works as an
> > >independent.
> 
> BTW:  Palfreman also produced the Frontline shows on electromagnetic fields
> and cancer and on allegations of health problems from breast implants.  Both
> of these upset some "activists", and I expect that this one will also.
> 
> John Moulder (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu)
> Radiation Biology Group
> Medical College of Wisconsin

Having spent some time working at and with the people scientists and 
technicians at Chernobyl let me assure you that the fear of all things 
radioactive - fuel rods, naturally occurring radioactive material, smoke 
detectors, et al -  is now almost infused in our DNA - and it took only 
50+ years - amazing how the human species adapts even to gross terror.

Peter MacDowell