Congratulations to Ted Rockwell !!! http://atomicinsights.com/2011/10/devastating-review-of-yablokovs-chernobyl-consequences-of-the-catastrophe-for-people-and-the-environment.html Devastating review of Yablokov’s Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environmentby Rod Adams on October 20, 2011 in Accidents, Contamination, Health Effects, Politics of Nuclear Energy Sometime before December 2009, someone at the New York Academy of Sciences decided to print a Greenpeace sponsored book titled Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment in a publication called the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The roots of the decision remain murky. Within a few months after the first printing of the book, Ted Rockwell, a long time member of the Academy, started working to convince NYAS leaders that the decision to print was a grave error that was bad for science and posed a significant risk to the reputation of the Academy as a source of sound, peer-reviewed information. As part of his effort, he encouraged the current editor of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences to appoint reviewers and to post the results of those reviews. Ted made the suggestion sometime in the late spring of 2010. On September 1, 2011, the editor of Annals of NYAS posted a review, but did so in an interesting way. Here is a screenshot of the page that shows the existence of a link to a review. .... |