{"id":175,"date":"2003-08-22T22:41:33","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:19","slug":"ashcroft_depleted_uranium_and_other_dense_metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Ashcroft, Depleted Uranium, and Other Dense Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Carter (who I really have to buy a cup of coffee one of these days &#8211; he&#8217;s local) has a typically-for-him <a href=\"http:\/\/philcarter.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_philcarter_archive.html#106156076582486680\" target=\"browser\">great post on Ashcroft and the politics of the Patriot Act and its successors<\/a>. He has a great point on the cost of lost legitimacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The net result of this distrust was seen very clearly in the debates over TIA and the Pentagon&#8217;s planned terrorism futures market. Americans &#8212; and their legislative representatives &#8212; didn&#8217;t care how these programs actually worked. They didn&#8217;t care that academics on the left and right supported such ideas in the abstract. Despite TIA&#8217;s fate, we still need computerized tools to look for &#8220;non-obvious relationships&#8221;. And a closed-access futures market for experts could have been a great way to quantify collective expert opinion. Nonetheless, the American public answered these programs with a resounding &#8220;Enough already!&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/philcarter.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_philcarter_archive.html#106156076582486680\" target=\"browser\">read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McNeal has a great compilation post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/impearls.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_impearls_archive.html#106096779727066488\" target=\"browser\">health consequences of Depleted Uranium (DU)<\/a> &#8211; often used in U.S. military projectiles (via <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/\" target=\"browser\">Volokh<\/a>). Hint: there don&#8217;t appear to be any.<\/p>\n<p><i>(changed title)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Carter (who I really have to buy a cup of coffee one of these days &#8211; he&#8217;s local) has a typically-for-him great post on Ashcroft and the politics of the Patriot Act and its successors. He has a great point on the cost of lost legitimacy: The net result of this distrust was seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}