INNUENDO . . .

From a letter by Marshall Brucer, M.D., to Time: "For the Hal-loween issue Time featured U-235 hobgoblins at 10 times more than 'expected to accumulate over a lifetime.' At 100 times more U-235 than expected in a two-year old's lifetime . . . the radiation from such a dose of U-235 with a 7 million year halflife would be so small it would be masked by the polonium residue of natural radium in cigarette smoke . . . 'The only way,' you quote, 'to ac-cumulate that much U-235 is by breathing it. Interesting! In 1943 a group of [radiation scientists] on the new Manhattan District Project were worried about the unknown toxicity of uranium. They grew a colony of rats in an atmosphere laden with sufficient uranium dust to kill them fast (the Manhattan Project didn't have time for fancy radiobiologists). As a control, a similar colony breathed clean air. After several months nothing happened, but eventually the rats lived out their natural lifespan, with one surprise: this first health physics experiment demonstrated that rats who breathed uranium dust lived longer and were happier (i.e. had a better reproductive history) than normal rats. Not a tumor in the bunch."

Slime did not, of course, publish the letter, but an editor named Stephen R. Daly replied in a letter ". . . We agree that the evidence Charles Zinser cites as proof that his sons were contaminated by the Fernald, Ohio, facility is not conclusive. Our story does not state otherwise . . ."

To which I would add that the dollar amounts received by Mr Daly from the Mafia and the pornography industry have never exceeded $1 million in any one transaction. Access to Energy has never stated otherwise.