Re: [Marxism] Cockburn deals with the Larouche problem

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/17/07, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> >
> > I have no comment on the other things in your email, but, as has been
> > pointed out in this list (you can look at the archives), that
> > Chernobyl did not, in fact, lead to a large number of deaths seems to
> > be a view that is not outside of mainstream thinking. (Look for the
> > article published in the British medical journal Lancet, which I
> > posted here.)
>
> I guess you didn't bother to read my blog entry on this, but the report
> you are referring to was drafted by the IAEA, a notoriously pro-nuke
> outfit

But if we discount IAEA on account of being a "notoriously pro-nuke"
outfit, by the same token we also have to skeptical about Slater,
whose article you quote, since Slater is described thus at the end of
the article:

"ALICE SLATER is a founder of Abolition 2000, a global network working
for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and is the Co-Convenor of the
Abolition 2000 Working Group for Sustainable Energy."

To the extent that IAEA is "notoriously pro-nuke", doesn't Abolition
2000 qualify as "notoriously anti-nuke"?

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