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From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
Subject: Re: Dr Rosalie Bertell @ World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet,11/91
Keywords: radioactivity, cancer, leukemia, poison, sickness, death, militarism
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:43:46 GMT
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In article <1992Aug18.143707.8783@odin.corp.sgi.com> dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) writes:

>  Excerpts from Oral Testimony (given in full 75 lines below) of Dr. Rosalie
>  Bertell before the Saturday Tribunal Session of the World Women's Congress 
>  for a Healthy Planet held in Miami last November on our military economy:

Dave, was she the comedian they hired or did they actually take this
ignoramus seriously?  What's she a doctor of?  Must be a humanity
because she has no understanding of anything even vaguely scientific.

>        Our universities would not teach nuclear physics or nuclear
>     engineering if the only jobs were producing weapons of mass
>     destruction. 

Unlikely.  For example, universities are happy to work with ROTC.

>        You probably have not heard of the effect in the atmosphere of
>     nuclear weapon testing.  

No, I haven't.  What effects are those?

>     Even nine space shots of nuclear bombs set
>     off in the upper atmosphere and also leaked to space, to outer space,
>     by the U.S.  

As far as I know, the US has never exploded a nuclear weapon in space.

>     It is the only country that ever set off the so-called
>     "rainbow test" which set fire to the Van Allen belts--the outer
>     magnetic force of the earth--that dumped radioactive material at the
>     magnetic North Pole, and has polluted very much of the Arctic.

God, this is a laugh.

1.  I've never heard of the rainbow test and doubt it existed.

2.  The Van Allen belts are not flammable.

3.  If it had caught fire I suspect we would have heard about it.

4.  The Van Allen belts are not the outer magnetic force of the earth,
	in fact they aren't even a magnetic force.

>        You probably have not heard of chemical-release modules in the
>     space program that are set up that dump things like berilium and
>     radioactive materials into the upper atmosphere *just* to see where
>     they go.

Well, the idiot who said this may not have, but anyone who pays
attention to the papers does.  For example, amateur astronomers often
watch these becasue they produce artificial "auroras".

>        You probably have not heard of secret shuttle shots that
>     deliberately cause holes in the ionisphere.

No, I haven't.  If they are secret how did "Doctor" Bartell hear about
them?

Also, how do you put a hole in the ionosphere and why would you want to?

>     It's
>     ludicrous and I'm glad we can laugh because if we don't laugh we'll
>     cry.

Yes.  Rank stupidity is ludicrous but it is also depressing.

>  A clear sign of decline in our culture is the consistent lack of attention,
>  given in major media, to the issues and long-term costs arising from the 
>  continued promulgation of "our" plutonium economy.

What plutonium economy?  Even within the nuclear industry we use very
little plutonium.

>   Doctor Rosalie Bertell is the President of the International Institute of
>   Concern for Public Health, in Toronto, Canada. 

And, what, exactly, is this "Institute"?  Who funds it?

>        However you have probably not heard of the effect on the
>     atmosphere of supersonic flight--this is almost all military.

What effect is this?
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