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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima - Unit 4 spent fuel removal >99% complete [View all]Generic Other
(28,979 posts)about Fukushima's impact on the environment. Anyone who ridicules your concerns (and it seems always to be the same three or four people) only want to mock you into silence. I ended up not agreeing with your conclusions on the cause of the starfish melt, but I do not for a moment believe it wasn't a legitimate question to ask whether it could be traced to Fukushima. Making fun of people for asking questions is not how real scientists work. It is how arrogant fools (like Republicans) act. Some DUers sound exactly like Republicans pooh poohing climate change whenever the topic of corporate polluters impact on the environment comes up.
If people want to be honest, they need to let us know why they feel as they do. If they work for the industry, transparency is crucial. If they simply enjoy acting like sharks in a feeding frenzy, they should admit it. Tell us how anyone they deem worthy of ridicule must be driven from DU as Nadine was. Targeting DUers by continuously swarming their threads to bully them is not behavior I admire.
And it distracts us from the real emergency. This happens when talking about fracking, the BP oil spill, nukes, climate change, NSA, etc. Clearly industry shills downplay every disaster that threatens their livelihood and our environment.
I think we should have a moratorium on attacking other people's views on these subjects. Why not instead try acting like progressives who care about finding answers rather than stifling discussion?