Cancer in the US
¾is there an epidemic? is another of the ex-cellent Amer. C. on Sci. & Health booklets ($2, ACSH, 1995 Broadway/18th fl., New York, NY 10023). Lung cancer, mostly caused by smoking, is rapidly increasing, all other cancers have been fairly steady since the 1930s, except for cancer of the stomach, which has been steadily falling.Seismic verification of nuclear testing treaties, OTA May 1988, ($7, GPO, Wash., DC 20402, stock no. 052-003-01108-5 is inter-esting technically. But politically, the idea is to verify that burglars do not carry dynamite.
"Let's tell the truth about pesticides" by Prof. J.G. Edwards, 21st Century, May/June 88; available in FF, Science Tower.
"The Railroading of Gov. E. Meecham," (who has since been found innocent in a court of law), Constitution (Box 377110, Wash., DC 20013), illustrates a point made in the editorial.
J. Oberg,"IA 655 does not equal KAL 007," Amer. Spect. Sept. 88. Excellent, but add that the US did not know the former was an airliner and had only seconds to decide; the Soviets fol-lowed KAL 007 for 1 hour and were sure it was a civilian airliner when they shot it down in cold blood. It is, in any case, sad that such an article needs to be written at all.
Real-World Intelligence ($14.95, Storm King Press, Box 3566, Wash. DC 220007) by H.E. Meyer (whose War Against Progress I recommended 9 years ago) is a very readable book for business executives who understand that business intelligence is not spying or chasing after secrets, but... that's what the book is about. However, it makes the tacit assumption that big corporate ma-nagement is able to look after its self-interest or even interested in finding out what's going on. Is it?
Nuclear Waste Disposal
Lord Marshall, Chairman of Britain's Central Electricity
Generating Board (1986):
"Earlier this year, British Nuclear Fuels released into the Irish Sea some 400 kilograms of uranium, with the full knowl-edge of the regulators. This attracted considerable media at-tention and, I believe, some 14 parliamentary questions [to the government on the floor of the House of Commons for imme-diate response, P.B.].
"I have to inform you that yesterday the CEGB released about 300 kilograms of radioactive uranium, together with all its radioactive decay products, into the environment. Further-more, we released some 300 kilograms of uranium the day before that. We shall be releasing the same amount of uranium today, and we plan to do the same tomorrow. In fact we do it every day of every year so long as we burn coal in our power stations. And we do not call that 'radioactive waste;' we call it coal ash."
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Vol. 16, No. 1
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 16, No. 1 Date: December 01, 2004 01:51 PM Title: The new venality
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