BERNARD L. COHEN Obituary: View BERNARD COHEN’s Obituary by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Bernie leaves really big shoes to fill….

March 11, One Year On: Radium Hot Springs Still in Demand – Japan Real Time – WSJ.

By Eleanor Warnock

Baths known as “radium hot springs” have existed in Japan for hundreds of years, their owners proclaiming the virtues of lightly radioactive radon gas as a way to clear skin, restore youth, and even, incongruous as it may sound, cure cancer.

(read more at the link above).

The Breakthrough Institute: The Making of a Radiation Panic.

by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus

One year after Fukushima, independent scientists working for the UN say bluntly that irrational fears of radiation poisoning will cause far more harm than the radiation itself.Not a single individual from the Japanese public received a dangerous dose, according to the early and informal analyses by the scientists. (read more at link above).