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[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Iodine protecting against radiation? Not on your life!
It is probably the second greatest fraud of all times
perpetrated by the United States Government.

In the late '40s, the government claimed that,
since we didn't eat enough fish, we were not
getting enough iodine. Therefore, to make us all
healthy, the Congress passed a law requiring all
table salt to be "iodized." That meant that it
was to contain potassium iodide, a significant
poison.

The truth was that the government discovered that
radioactive iodine from the nuclear bomb testing in
Nevada and in the Pacific was getting into the food
chain. Iodine gets stored in the thyroid gland and,
if it is radioactive you end up with a radioactive
neck which is NotGood(tm). The idea behind iodized
salt was to overload everybody's system with so much
non radioactive iodine, that the radioactive version
is not absorbed.

There are four radioactive isotopes of iodine, I-123,
I-128, I-129, and I-131. I-128 has a long half-life
and will accumulate. It is not highly radioactive but
with a 1/2 life of billions of years, it won't go away
when confined to the thyroid gland. I-131 is highly
radioactive and is directly created in plutonium fission.
It decays to I-128. It is so radioactive that it glows in
the dark from Cherenkov radiation. Normal iodine is I-127
and is stable with no radioactivity.

Carrying a bottle of potassium iodide pills is like
carrying a bottle of embalming fluid --worthless unless
you are already dead.
 
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Broadcast List USER" <Broadcast at fetrow.org>

> In a message dated 03/08/2009 4:30:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Broadcast at fetrow.org writes:
>
>> [I had written about KI, Potassium Iodine tablets.]
>> They protect you from radiation poisoning.  Google it.
>>
>> I also carry a radiation detector, as does my family.
>> Check out  http://www.ki4u.com/.