Thursday, August 11, 2005
No, don't spin!
OMG! Radioactive blunder! Beth Daley, from the Project On Governmental Oversight (POGO? Sounds like fun) knows that lab officials are just trying to cover up an imminent health risk that's going to kill us all.
"This guy walked around for 11 days with this stuff, going to other states and who knows where else," Daley said. "Anything that he touched may be contaminated. They are spending $1 million on the investigation, but it's unclear what exactly they are doing to discover what other sites have been contaminated."
I'd guess they asked the dude.
"It takes one speck of americium inhaled for you to get cancer," Daley said. "I'm alarmed by the way the lab is trying to spin control on this. I find this a bit Orwellian."
I'm sure POGO finds a lot of things a bit Orwellian. But yeah, that spin control is bad. I mean, it only takes one speck! Heck, actually, you can get cancer even with zero specks! That's how dangerous this is! It's infinitely dangerous! Oh, wait, she's talking about spin from the lab, not from POGO.
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