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one of them, “Oh where, oh where has the fallout gone, oh where can
the poison be, why right in the milk and the other things that the
milkman brings to me.”
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I can give you other items like that. Why do the ultrapacifists
seize upon milk when obviously it is the less of the offenders, assuming
that any of them are offenders at the present time?
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Dr. Comar. I would like in generosity to think that it is a lack
of understanding on their part. They are just not familiar with the
type of thing weare talking about.
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enator ArKkeN. The result casts suspicions on their own motives
by doing these things and concentrating on objects which are obviously
the nonoffenders or the most so.
Dr. Comar. That is right. If people want to strike because of
radioactivity they should strike against food.
Senator Aiken. I will be glad to furnish their sheet of jokes and
poemsfor the record, if the chairman would like to haveit.
Representative Hosmer. Let us put it in the file.
Senator Arwen. Although I did not find anything educational or
edifying in it.
Mr. Ramey.Is it perhaps not part of the answer that the detection
network has picked up milk and radioactivity in milk whichis easier,
perhaps, to measure initially and the network was distributing this
information and it has been harder, perhaps, to get the scientific
evidence on the other aspects of your diet that provide calcium.
It has been the purpose of this research and these hearings to try
to bring this out.
_ Senator Arxen. The explanation given to us about 4 years ago, as
I recall it was this: That milk is a food which is available in every
county in the United States and, therefore, the most convenient food
to carry out the tests on.
That is why milk wasselected.
Dr. Comar. It is a good sample for the purpose and has been
used. One has to understand that all foods contain strontium 90,
milk the least of all. I think if people really understand this they
can maketheir evaluation.
Chairman Horirrevp. Mr. Chairman, the lay reader who reads our
hearings sometimes, if they do read them, sometimes makes the
Statementthat this committee is attempting to minimize rather than
maximize the dangerof fallout.
I think the record of this committee is so outstanding in the fact
that it has called upon all facets of scientific opinion to present their
professional opinion on the subject. of radiation that it stands preeminent in bringing to lay people as well as other people information
on the subject of radiation.
I believe that the record shows that we have striven very hard to
bring the facts to the people and then Jet them make their conclusionsaccording to their own judgmentbased on thefacts.
I find it, however, the same in this line of work as in any otherline
of work that the people who read the hearings pick out the points like
they pick out the points in the President’s speeches that happen to
coincide with their particular philosophy and they ignore the points
which do not coincide withtheir particular philosophy.
Representative Price. Will you proceed, Doctor?
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