{"id":4752,"date":"2012-04-16T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T07:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2013-03-01T00:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:42:46","slug":"helen-caldicott-is-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/helen-caldicott-is-not-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Caldicott is Not the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Helen Caldicott, M.D\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/aa\/DrHelenCaldicott.jpg\/270px-DrHelenCaldicott.jpg\" title=\"Helen Caldicott, M.D\" width=\"270\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Caldicott declined to answer questions at a lecture...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The recently started\u00a0<strong><a title=\"The Nuclear Literacy Project\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearliteracy.org\/\">Nuclear Literacy Project<\/a><\/strong> has a welcome entry, a person with knowledge in the field of radioactivity and nuclear engineering reports on a visit to an anti-nuclear seminar with Helen Caldicott. The person, PhD student\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Link to the NLP page about Kallie Metzger\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearliteracy.org\/nuclear-all-stars\/kallie\/\">Kallie Metzger<\/a><\/strong>, entered the meeting with some hope of a good\u00a0discussion where there would be room for incorrect statements to be straightened out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What Kallie found, however, was that the renowned anti-nuclear activist was more keen on scaring people into thinking like herself, and questions from the audience were responded to in a hostile and arrogant manner, if at all.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kallie Metzger, Ph.D student\" src=\"http:\/\/nuclearliteracy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kallie-small.jpg\" title=\"Kallie Metzger, Ph.D student\" width=\"280\" height=\"374\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">...attended by Kallie Metzger, Ph.D student in nuclear engineering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After watching a few videos with Helen Caldicott, including\u00a0<strong><a title=\"George Monbiot vs. Dr. Helen Caldicott: A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy. Part 2 of 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pb5HItRpDY8\">her infamous TV-debate with George Monbiot<\/a><\/strong> from last year, we are, unfortunately, not surprised about her behaviour. The good news is that Kallie went to listen to Caldicott, and reported about it. We need more people like Kallie who attends these kind of meetings and try to raise relevant questions when remarkable claims are being stated. If Caldicott continues her tour in the same arrogant manner her audience should diminish rather quickly down to the die-hard fans of her outrageous claims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the hero of the week is <strong>Kallie Metzger<\/strong>. Read her account of the Caldicott seminar <strong><a title=\"Kallie Metzger reports on her Caldicott encounter\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearliteracy.org\/caldicott-encounter\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Then ask yourself: will you be our next hero?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently started\u00a0Nuclear Literacy Project has a welcome entry, a person with knowledge in the field of radioactivity and nuclear engineering reports on a visit&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/helen-caldicott-is-not-the-answer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helen Caldicott is Not the Answer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,548],"tags":[496,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}