Email To ANS President & Nuclear News Editor

Hi Michael and Betsy:

"Merchants Of Doubt" is a book about the denial of the scientific consensus and intentionally spreading misinformation.  We've seen it with tobacco safety, evolutionary biology, vaccines and global warming.

We had an email exchange several months ago about the ANS doing the same with LNT.

And with my May, 2013 issue I see that nothing has changed at ANS!

In honoring Ted Rockwell, Betsy writes, "No one was more passionate about nuclear and setting the record straight about its purported risks..."

On page 91, also honoring Rockwell, M.M. writes, "A leading critic of the linear-no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis- the traditional regulatory default hypothesis..."

On page 41, in covering the NASA "study" (it's really a gross estimate, not a study), Dick Kowan writes, "...is consistent with recent findings that the linear no threshold hypothesis model used to derive nuclear mortality factors might not be valid..."

Ted Rockwell's opinion did nothing to set the record straight.  Wake up...LNT is still here.  LNT is not "the traditional regulatory default hypothesis". It is a scientific theory which is over 70 years old (older than relativity or quantum mechanics).  Regulatory bodies embrace it, because there is no evidence to contradict i
it.

That Rockwell established a pseudo-scientific organization, as well as being a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association (as in clairvoyance and psychic healing), is not a good thing.  Real scientists overturn the consensus with evidence, not by stepping outside of science and forming a website to spread propaganda.

There are no recent findings that LNT might not be valid.  Notice how nothing has changed in the real world as a result of the study being referenced?

The ANS's Nuclear News seems intent on providing an alternate universe- misinformation bubble for its members directly against ANS's Code of Ethics.

This will certainly be my last year as a member, and if I can get a prorated refund for this year, that would be appreciated.

(The book referenced above pinpoints the source of the misinformation propaganda over the decades to the Marshall Institute.  The past ANS President is associated with that organization, and that's why he and Rockwell assembled a misinformation campaign at last year's ANS meeting.)