Published: June 6th, 2012 at 1:53 am ET
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MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowships
MIT News Office
May 21, 2012
Two of 47 newly funded Department of Energy (DOE) research projects are led by professors in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) at MIT.
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“Scholarship for Nuclear Communications and Methods for Evaluation of Nuclear Project Acceptability” will develop a model to characterize the factors affecting social acceptance of nuclear projects by potential stakeholders. The nuclear enterprise has long faced difficulties in gaining the broad social acceptance needed for success. The base of scholarship relevant to this problem is relatively small, and not much used within the nuclear enterprise. Reliance upon public education efforts continues to be the main, and largely unsuccessful, tactic to achieve acceptance. This project will develop a model for the social acceptability of nuclear projects, for use in assessment and refinement of their probabilities of success among essential stakeholders. The researchers expect that it will strengthen the ability to design and implement large projects more efficiently, leading to higher rates of success for future nuclear projects.
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Published: June 6th, 2012 at 1:53 am ET
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You have GOT o be kidding.
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sounds about right.
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:/ .. respect for this institution fading rapidly.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/prolonged-radiation-exposure-0515.html
*sigh*
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They have to start training corporate shills somewhere and what better examples than young eager folk looking to make their enthusiastic mark on society, albeit a deadly one!!!!!!
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Everybody hates radiation. Time for those in the nuclear industry to change careers. Seriously.
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Just import the argument that radiation is good for the public and that smiling will protect everyone. Why hire geniuses for that?…
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Another One Of Japan's Delusions: Nuclear Fuel Recycling
http://youtu.be/lK6ueUbV87g
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Remember what the Tobacco industry said about smoking…
… I'm wondering what Nuclear industry has been smoking.
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not enough of the right stuff probably
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Fucking A!!!!!!!!!!
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So they need broad public acceptance to achieve higher success. Well, we all know what "success" means in that context. That's right: Money.
"The researchers expect that it will strengthen the ability to design and implement large projects more efficiently, leading to higher rates of success for future nuclear projects."
The government spend taxpayer money funding a research project to increase the profit rates of the investors in the nuke industry. That's basically what I read.
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Nuke industry is all government funded. Cannot survive without it. Remove Government funding and the industry will go away.
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Exactly! Fuck the government!
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some pearlers here ..
"The nuclear enterprise has long faced difficulties in gaining the broad social acceptance needed for success. The base of scholarship relevant to this problem is relatively small, and not much used within the nuclear enterprise"
how's that folks, we are a 'problem'.
"Reliance upon public education efforts continues to be the main, and largely unsuccessful, tactic to achieve acceptance"
oh yeah, three nuke meltdown don't help either. Someone here reported 30+ nuke accidents so far. yeah.. they need a new tactic alright.
"… will strengthen the ability to design and implement large projects more efficiently, leading to higher rates of success for future nuclear projects"
"The awards announced under the NEUP programs will support nuclear energy research and development and student education at 46 colleges and universities around the country"
they are infesting like rats. Seriously folks.. we're up against a fearsomely resourced foe. 46 colleges.. that's disgusting .. where's the reply from the renewable energy providers? So many other's could reply. But we are very disjointed and underfunded.
These people are sheer evil in their capacity for depravity and destruction of the earth .. how's this 'grant' ..
"deep borehole option for disposal of high level nuclear waste (HLW)"
these madpersons needs to be stopped. so urgently it's crazy. evil crazy stupid.
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apan farmers seek radiation-free rice
http://media.smh.com.au/news/world-news/japan-farmers-seek-radiationfree-rice-3333119.html
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thanks cardi, good clip on the problems fuku farmers face. took ages for a bmw ad to load first tho. good shots of damage to the reactors in the final few seconds.
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'Blood money makes the dead go around.'
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guess they think a propaganda campaign is gonna buy them more time on this planet. Just another sign that those on high, are still having trouble facing the hard truth. This is good. The more they delay and put-off the inevitable, the less chance they have of surviving their own stupidity…
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DOE passing out money to MIT. The same package program.
Now..I know perfectly well.. that the educated folks at MIT..know the true condition of Fukushima…
DOE is producing another generation of "mouthpieces".
"Blood money"..yes
Both the DOE and MIT are committing Crimes Against Humanity.
(..It's really a menage a trios..with the DOD (killers).)
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Thanks goathead, never never ever under estimate the power of indoctrination look what it’s doing to the world we have all these wonderful well educated young people that can think for themselves or out of the box controlled by corporation money $$$$$$$ this is off topic lhttp://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/apocalyptic-fish-kill-reported-off-the-coast-of-ohara-japan-in-chiba-prefecture/
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Reposted from TheBowRiver. ENEnews. It ain't just MIT.
"March 20, 2012 at 1:54 am
"You are quite correct about what we should expect. What I have a deep ethical concern about is the coercion of our Universities etc. Like other ills currently in our society, these connections to nuclear energy are an absolute evil and against the public good. Maybe I am overstating how tight the bond is, but, as an example from the NEI member roster, Does the University of Tokyo have the freedom to publish anything which would place the nuclear industry in a bad light? Other university members below."
University of Alabama
University of Alberta
University of Antofagasta, Chile
University of Arizona
University of Bologna
University of California
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado
University of Denver
University of Detroit
University of Florida
University of Idaho
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of New Mexico
University of North Texas
University of Notre Dame
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rhode Island
University of South Carolina
The University of Tennessee
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
The University of the District of Columbia
The University of Tokyo
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
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We're financing are own demise.
WAAAAAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP !!!!!
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If money corrupts, then lots of money corrupts lots better. Many universities already have the equipment needed to test radiation in food imported from overseas or grown in the USA in their nuclear labs. However, since the equipment and the salaries of nuke departments are paid for by endowments from the nuclear industry, do not expect this equipment to be used to protect public health by testing and publicizing the extent of Fuku radiation in the food supply. Instead, if an article were to appear in the local press about Fukushima, they will send forth some dusty PhD nuke apologist to tell us that the levels of Fuku radiation in the air, water, and food are well within acceptable levels, and are considered safe by US Government standards. Nothing to worry about, blah, blah, blah. So it goes in this uphill battle to get the truth out.
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So our government corrupts our country's scientists to become propaganda experts. Is there private corporate money helping this effort, or is it our tax payer dollars?
So tax payer dollars help fund propaganda for big corporate interests and bail out big banks, but in return we get even less protection from our government. Are we that moranic?
We also need to understand that not all are the equivalent of Olympians in repairing DNA and detoxification. There are chromosomal patterns in our population that make DNA repair and detoxification less efficient (study DNA methylation). Why not educate the population about ways to aid DNA repair and detoxification instead of brainwashing them? I know. It would cost more money to evacuate large populations, so this is their best alternative.
I agree. MIT, corporations and the government are committing crimes against humanity.
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Very good idea.
MIT could use the money.
Students could use the education.
Society could use a better understanding of how
it can be manipulated.
Would recommend that student, faculty and administration
hold graduation on-site Fukushima Daiichi.
SFP#4 would serve as a good backdrop.
Caps and gowns are waiting.
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The government's efforts to save money on population evacuation in the wake of the next nuclear disaster amounts to the development of a genocide policy with selective genetic engineering. Isn't this a variation of what Hitler tried?
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Yup
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the thousands of fuku children with thyroid nodules support this idea too. the fuku children support the nuclear industry and want children thoughout the world to share their optimism. m.i.t. could invite thyroid nodule children and bleeding nose mayors of fuku to join the nuke chorus.
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I guess the mantra of Fukushima is no worse than eating a banana and smoking a cigarette at the same time or a little radiation is good for you so with a 'glowing' smile, be happy, isn't working like it use to.
The actual stockholders (taxpayers) have this nuclear mandate rammed down ours throats by Congress then want us to accept it and not complain about it…TEPCO on steroids.
Japan's 54 nuclear reactors shut down with the country still functioning will be ignored just like Germany managed to produce 50% of their power needs from solar albeit for one day recently.
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Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic. Hate to repeat this, many of us are toast. Our government, the Japanese government and the UN aren’t going to do jack. The discussion now really needs to center around “what are you going to do” when the Fukushima Daiichi power generating station turns into a radiological firestorm.
Fukushima Daiichi is past the tipping point. The arguments for and against nuclear power won’t be an issue soon, because everyone including the MOU who engineered this business/industry will be sick or dead. And, if they’re not dead, they’ll wish they were.
Well, one consolation, we won’t have to worry about climate change/global warming, it won’t matter. Those who survive will only have one charge that will occupy them day and night, what to eat, what to drink, and where to get it.
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Correction…because there's option to edit
Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic. Hate to repeat this, many of us are toast. Our government, the Japanese government and the UN aren’t going to do jack. The discussion now really needs to center around “what are you going to do” when the Fukushima Daiichi power generating station turns into a radiological firestorm.
Fukushima Daiichi is past the tipping point. The arguments for and against nuclear power won’t be an issue soon, because many os us including the MOU who engineered this business/industry will be sick or dead. And, if they are and we are not dead, we'll wish we were.
Well, one consolation, we won’t have to worry about climate change/global warming, it won’t matter. Those who survive will only have one charge that will occupy them day and night, what to eat, what to drink, and where to get it.
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Correction again…because there's no option to edit
Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic. Hate to repeat this, many of us are toast. Our government, the Japanese government and the UN aren’t going to do jack. The discussion now really needs to center around “what are you going to do” when the Fukushima Daiichi power generating station turns into a radiological firestorm.
Fukushima Daiichi is past the tipping point. The arguments for and against nuclear power won’t be an issue soon, because many os us including the MOU who engineered this business/industry will be sick or dead. And, if they are and we are not dead, we'll wish we were.
Well, one consolation, we won’t have to worry about climate change/global warming, it won’t matter. Those who survive will only have one charge that will occupy them day and night, what to eat, what to drink, and where to get it.
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key words for me:
"…a radiological firestorm"
"…tipping point"
"…arguments …won’t be an issue soon"
"…what to eat, what to drink, and where to get it"
“what are you going to do” ? – Cisco
Some will prepare, many will not.
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Good question. There will be locales that miraculously will not be irradiated significantly. Some of those populations will survive, but the quality of life they will have in the future will be bleak. Finding a safe country and locale is absolutely unknown and unpredictable.
For example: When other nuclear plants are left unattended, they will experience cooling malfunctions over time, which will set up other opportunities for meltdowns. There will be a domino effect, because there won't be sufficient or competent manpower to maintain various nuclear reactor sites…about 640 worldwide. Think about this…Who will man the other 53 Japanese nuclear reactors when Honshu and other Japanese islands have to be evacuated?
ChasAha you asked, “What am I going to do?” All I know now, is that I am not going to die from radiation sickness. I will check myself out before that.
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It so easy t see how it's going to go down, one plant after another…until the world is cover in radioactivity.
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And to think we all worried about WMD and didn't realize that in the USA we all live near a WMD waiting to go off. Too much rain, flooding, a blackout, tornado, earthquake…many nomal occurences and it's over…the melt down starts immediately!
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"Reliance upon public education efforts continues to be the main, and largely unsuccessful, tactic to achieve acceptance."
Don't they get it? The citizens of America DO NOT WANT to be poisoned to death by radiation, nor do we want the murder of future generations on our consciences.
We have a CONSCIENCE. We have INTELLIGENCE. As such, we do not wish to continue to allow the nuclear "geniuses" running the show in our nation to create even MORE nuclear waste that will need babysitting for millenia, especially since there still is no viable plan for safely doing so, even as our spent fuel pools at our 104 NPPs are scheduled to be FULL by 2015!
We do not want your LIES and PROPAGANDA BRAIN-WASHING, MIT, DOE, or anyone else in this criminal pursuit!!! Don't you GET IT???
Argghh…I think we need a MASS protest in which we taxpayers, the ones whose money is funding these DOE MIT grants and the entire nuclear industry, just REFUSE to pay our portion of taxes that have anything to do with supporting the nuclear industry's mass murder they are committing, slowly but surely.
It would be a new movement of "Conscientious Objectors," as was seen during the Vietnam War. We who have consciences do NOT wish to continue to be guilty of funding the murder of all life on our planet.
Ecocide = Continued taxpayer support for the nuclear industry. Period.
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What is really going on here? I think Majia said it best in a post on another thread,"“Ignorance has been strategically cultivated.”
I wrote a bit today on my blog. I hope the people in Metropolis Illinois will truly become informed about the risk they face living near a uranium processing facility…
"Will Superman Save his Hometown of Metropolis, Illinois from a Radiation Leak?
http://www.nuclearblues.com/2012/06/06/will-superman-save-his-hometown-of-metropolis-illinois-from-a-radiation-leak/
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@enoughalready45
June 6, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Yes, Majia has brilliantly summed up the evil actions:
"Ignorance has been strategically cultivated."
So they are proceeding hand in hand with the foreign hands and side by side with the echte Auslaender. In India it is the NIMHANS psychiatricks against the people that is being built. How can one ever convert falsehood into the truth? Jim Corbett, the founder of the first Wildlife National Park, the Corbett National Park, once wrote in one of his books on Man Eaters(The Man eating tigers): the Imperial Justice system of the British in India has institutionalised this conversion of truth into falsehood and vice versa and there is no justice to be found in the present laws for the common man.
The Russians are busy doing this cultivation around Kudankulam according to a report. Thus values lower than that for beasts are being attempted to be brainwashed. And the audience: school children.
When nuclear power programmes consume much more than the energy that they produce during their postulated lifetime,and year after year, the dynamic energy analysis reveals no power available to society apart from that delivered to the nuclear industry, whither the realisation of rights and the space for self determination in the face of brutal suppression of the people? Sorcery at work. Internal radiation handled by external exposure models making ICRP risk model just witchcraft(See ECRR 2003/2010)). We are heading into extinction. SOS!
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@Ramaswami Kumar
I looked up the term you used "echte Auslaender" and it comes up as "C Aliens" and "Auslaender" comes up as "aliens".
I am a bit leary when anyone starts bringing up aliens in any form on this site other than jokingly. Do you care to elaborate on what you are referring to.
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@enoughalready45
June 7, 2012 at 8:13 am
It means real foreigners or foreigners in person in contrast to the foreign hands. Sorry, I should have straightaway put that this way. Thanks for pointing out.
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@Ramaswami Kumar
Thanks, makes sense now.
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Sent 5 minutes ago…
Susan Hockfield, PhD, President
Massachessets Institute of Technology
Dear Dr. Hockfield:
Good Day! I was very disappointed and shocked to read and hear about a recently published study, funded by DOE, announced May 21 in a MIT press release, "MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowships. ". ..[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-doe-grants-fellowships.html]
There’s considerable chatter gaining readership and comments on a number of green blogs and a few small newspapers. The discussion that’s taking place is about how flawed and bias the MIT research is, the remarkable compromised biological studies and conclusions; and, the very fact that MIT would participate in such an unscientifically produced piece of “research (?)”. I think the ongoing discussion will shortly become a national story. MIT's reputation is at stake.
Yesterday, Sue Prent of the Green Mountain Daily wrote about your study. Her writing follows:
MIT has released a study which, they say, suggests that populations need not be evacuated in the future, should another event like Fukushima take place!
That's right; long captive by the now-threatened nuclear industry, in whose future it is heavily invested, MIT has finally jumped the shark. Ignoring the large body of scientific evidence very much to the contrary, MIT constructed its own experiment, carefully designed to "prove" a thesis convenient to the industry: continued…
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that low-dose radiation over long periods of exposure is essentially harmless.
In a single stroke, the MIT study attempts to overturn all existing science and eliminate a significant collateral cost from the nuclear balance sheet.
Are people concerned, in the aftermath of Fukushima, because evacuation plans almost everywhere have been found gravely wanting? A simple paper fix from MIT, based on junk science, allows the industry to maintain that exclusion zones aren't even necessary!
This isn't the first time MIT has been found to be exercising extreme bias to make nuclear look more affordable. In fact, the advocacy role of MIT on behalf of the industry is boldly apparent in this description of a research grant program:
"Scholarship for Nuclear Communications and Methods for Evaluation of Nuclear Project Acceptability" will develop a model to characterize the factors affecting social acceptance of nuclear projects by potential stakeholders. The nuclear enterprise has long faced difficulties in gaining broad social acceptance for success… Reliance upon public education efforts continues to be the main, and largely unsuccessful, tactic to achieve success…" continued
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Ian Goddard’s 10 minute videodoc “MIT No-Evacuations Study Debunked" dissects portions of the research and appears to destroy the study design, the protocol, the model, and the study’s findings and conclusions. You should view it here as I'm sure you’ll be asked about it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YFe6Q08M8&feature=player_embedded
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely;
My name, research organization, and contact info
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EXCELLENT Cisco
Thank you so much for writing this letter.
May I publish it on my blog as well (with your name or simply with your alias here)?
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Sure…with my alias please
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Outstanding, Cisco! Thank you for taking the time to send that letter to MIT! Let's hope it opens some eyes and shakes things up…
Good work!
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Cisco, in your next letter, you might find this quote by Iori of Fukushima-Diary.com helpful:
"Whoever it is, the right decision is the right decision. Even if its a president or prime minister, decisions not based on the facts are absolutely wrong. It will cause a disaster. The rule of the game changed."
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Forwarded a copy to the Provost who will become the President in July.
L. Rafael Reif, Provost
Massachussets Institute of Technology
reif@mit.edu
Dr. Reif:
Good Day! I tried to copy you on my email to Dr. Hockfield, but I was unsuccessful. It follows.
Congratulations on your appointment.
I suspect this may fall into your lap considering Dr. Hockfield's July departure.
Sincerely;
My name, research organization, and contact info
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Good thinking, getting it to him early, Cisco! That way, he is less likely to be too preoccupied with his new position and may even send a reply.
Good luck!
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Well folks, here's the official reply from MIT's director of communications I received yesterday.
June 11, 2012
Dear Mr. Ortega,
Dr. Reif informed me of your note to him regarding your concerns about research at MIT related to nuclear science and engineering.
One part of your email concerned research about exposure to radiation that was published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives. I would suggest that if you have concerns about that research, you make your views known to the journal.
Your email also concerned news about a Department of Energy grant awarded to MIT faculty interested in public attitudes about nuclear projects. If and when those faculty members publish research, you should contact the relevant journal if you have any concerns about that research.
Best regards,
Nate Nickerson
Director of Communications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 11, Room 400
Cambridge, MA 02139
My comment: SSDD
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Wow, Cisco. That is a pretty lame response to your thoughtful questions, which they basically ignored (being the trained professional PR BS agents they are paid to be).
Sad, but ironically fitting that the new MIT president would have their own PR BS dept. handle this matter concerning a grant to help the nuke industry learn how to do better PR BSing to gain "public acceptance" for our own nuclear death.
Is this telling or what?
Thanks for trying Cisco. You can now either chose to give up or become a bee in their bonnet and find a way to get the pres. of MIT to comment directly on the matter. Probably would require the help of a good seasoned investigative journalist, preferably someone in the Boston area…
And perhaps getting the involvement of some active environmental student groups at MIT or other area colleges, who could stage a protest against such research at MIT? If a local newspaper picked up on this, then I imagine the pres. himself would be forced to respond.
Anyway, kudos to you for trying, Cisco. Every little bit helps, that's for sure!
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@Cisco: Take it up with the Journals? Mr. Reif is very lucky to have Mr. Nickerson communicating a whole lotta nothing for him. Wow. That was some super-slick, circular pass-the-buck-speak.
What's "My comment: SSDD"?
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The MIT director of communications refers me to the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives (J-EHP) writing he suggests “that if you have concerns about that research, you make your views known to the journal”, implying their research has the gold stamp of approval because it’s been peer reviewed by the JEHP. This looks like a job for Superman and above my pay grade.
The following excerpt is taken from the Journals “Information” page describing who they are… http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/static/information.action:
“Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP's mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. With an impact factor of 6.09, EHP is the top monthly journal in public, environmental, and occupational health and the third-ranked monthly journal in environmental sciences.
The environmental health sciences include many fields of study and increasingly comprise a multidisciplinary research area. EHP publishes articles from a wide range of scientific disciplines encompassing basic research; epidemiologic studies; risk assessment; continued…
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relevant ethical, legal, social, environmental justice, and policy topics; longitudinal human studies; in vitro and in vivo animal research with a clear relationship to human health; and environmental medicine case reports. Because children are uniquely sensitive to their environments, EHP devotes a research section specifically to issues surrounding children's environmental health. “
I call your attention to the last claim, “EHP devotes a research section specifically to issues surrounding children's environmental health. “ And, I would beg the question, “whose children might that be”?
Your tax dollars at work…undermining, compromising, and ultimately destroying your future.
Is this a great country or what!
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Risks from nuclear power and weapons are on the rise
Even established power faces a riskier nuclear environment.
by James Holloway – June 7 2012, 11:10am PDT
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/risks-from-nuclear-power-and-weapons-are-on-the-rise/
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No matter how much they try to spin it, more and more people are seeing the light (or the darkness, I should say), of the nuclear power madness we are faced with.
Here is an excerpt from a gripping firsthand account, posted today by Iori on his excellent Fukushima-diary.com, describing how just after the 9.0 earthquake on 3/11, his survival instincts finally kicked in and supplanted his former brainwashing of "Don't listen to your own instincts, but follow what the authories say…":
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/settlement-report-672012-change/
snip:
"I dared to break the rule. It was the first time when I thought more of my life and safety than “company”. I started thinking as an individual. The game changed. You must break the old rule and mustn’t feel scared because you are the leader of your own life. I was already starting to gain some kind of confidence to judge right in emergency.
"I couldn’t decide anything at work like all the other 20s because I had no experience, but because no one had gone through this disaster, we were at the same start line. There was no boss or un-boss to survive. Whoever it is, the right decision is the right decision. Even if it’s a president or prime minister, decisions not based on the facts are absolutely wrong. It will cause a disaster. The rule of the game changed."
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From the assumptions they concoct to the conclusions they desire, the rulers kill-perfect mass murders-intergenerational- like nobody does.
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