[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Demon Buddha]

Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> At 05:59 PM 6/20/02, you wrote:
> 
> With the rate of a number of kinds of cancers going up every year, being a
> cancer survivor myself, I gotta disagree...that exposure to fallout and
> radioactives in our environment is insignificant.

	A statistic I heard on WBAI about two weeks ago, and I do
	not necessarily place any creedence in it, though...

	100 years ago it is estimated that one in a hundred got cancer.
	30 years ago it was one in twelve.  In the next 20 years EVERY
	person will have had, on average, two forms of cancer.

	If this is true, it's pretty scary.  One need look at what has
	changed. Problem with things such as radio active fallout is
	the effects are often very slow to manifest such that people
	are reticent to associate it with increases in disease.  Gamma
	flashes kill quickly.  A speck of plutonium in the lung may
	take 20 years, but make no mistake that is will indeed get you
	eventually.  It, with mercury, are the most toxic elements on
	the menu.