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Atomic Insights Blog: Focus on food, water, shelter. Dr. Greg Jaczko is wrong and giving dangerously bad advice
atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/focus-on-food-water-shelter-dr-greg.html, posted 2011 by peter in fukushima japan jpquake opinion science
One of the nice things about being an old ring knocker (I graduated from the Naval Academy almost 30 years ago) is that you can have a pretty useful set of highly placed friends. Some of them gave me enough information to confirm what I suspected. I cannot think of any way to say this gently - Dr. Jaczko was *wrong*. It is possible someone in his staff provided bad information, but it should not be all that difficult to see the problem with some simple, back of the envelop calculations.
I would think a guy with a PhD could do the math in his head - or at least enough of the math to ask for a verification of the analysis. I would expect someone who is in charge of a large, technically competent organization would double and triple check numbers and statements before going in front of C-Span cameras and a congressional committee and making statements and recommendations that distract the entire world from a real and growing food, water and shelter crisis.