Comments on: Duck and Cover, the MIA’s Response to the Granite Panic of 2008 http://solidsurfacealliance.org/blog/2008/07/30/duck-and-cover-the-mias-response-to-the-granite-panic-of-2008/ Everything you need to know about the granite/Radon/radiation issues. For more info, go to forum.solidsurfacealliance.org Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:09:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://solidsurfacealliance.org/blog/2008/07/30/duck-and-cover-the-mias-response-to-the-granite-panic-of-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Administrator Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:12:07 +0000 http://solidsurfacealliance.org/blog/2008/07/30/duck-and-cover-the-mias-response-to-the-granite-panic-of-2008/#comment-34 Looks like the MIA removed their "talking points" off their website. We noticed that they had been sanitizing their site the last few weeks, I guess the digital age version of shredding and burning the files. What is also very interesting is that not a word was heard from the MIA today. Hiring a new PR firm? http://www.marble-institute.com/pressroom/pr072908.cfm Notice the claims to EPA support are gone? Quick work, I wonder what the EPA said in that meeting yesterday with the MIA? Here they claim Dr. Steck supports their work. http://www.marble-institute.com/industryresources/expertcomments-072908.cfm But the work is very old. Dr. Steck did send me a copy of the data results, which indeed show little Radon on the samples tested. But it seems they were all US varieties, not the exotics that are causing the problems. And of course they quote the EPA, even though the MIA retracted their claim of support. Size and Kathren don't have a clue on the amount of Uranium or Radium being found in these stones, not 10 ppm that they claim, but ten to fifty times that. Both are no doubt responsible scientists, but without knowing the facts, they can't speak to the issues. Did you notice that there are no links connecting the quotes to where they were drawn from? I bet that is no accident. Easy to take out of context that way. And Langmuir's comments are in stark contrast to Dr. Chyi's Crema Bordeaux finding of .27 pCi/L. That is about 67% of the average outdoor air Radon levels, no where near 270,000 times less! Are they saying that out door air is 72,900 pCi/L????? Looks like the MIA removed their “talking points” off their website. We noticed that they had been sanitizing their site the last few weeks, I guess the digital age version of shredding and burning the files.

What is also very interesting is that not a word was heard from the MIA today. Hiring a new PR firm?

http://www.marble-institute.com/pressroom/pr072908.cfm

Notice the claims to EPA support are gone? Quick work, I wonder what the EPA said in that meeting yesterday with the MIA?

Here they claim Dr. Steck supports their work.

http://www.marble-institute.com/industryresources/expertcomments-072908.cfm

But the work is very old. Dr. Steck did send me a copy of the data results, which indeed show little Radon on the samples tested. But it seems they were all US varieties, not the exotics that are causing the problems.

And of course they quote the EPA, even though the MIA retracted their claim of support.

Size and Kathren don’t have a clue on the amount of Uranium or Radium being found in these stones, not 10 ppm that they claim, but ten to fifty times that. Both are no doubt responsible scientists, but without knowing the facts, they can’t speak to the issues.

Did you notice that there are no links connecting the quotes to where they were drawn from? I bet that is no accident. Easy to take out of context that way.

And Langmuir’s comments are in stark contrast to Dr. Chyi’s Crema Bordeaux finding of .27 pCi/L. That is about 67% of the average outdoor air Radon levels, no where near 270,000 times less! Are they saying that out door air is 72,900 pCi/L?????

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