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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima Meltdown Driving Increased Abnormalities Among US Infants [View all]FBaggins
(26,721 posts)156. Are you falling for Arnie's nonsense our spreading your own?
Do you seriously think that the dose estimates are based on guesses of how much was released in total rather than actual readings taken throughout the area?
They must certainly "have the data" and, if anything, have been incredibly conservative in estimating dose rates (assuming, for instance, that the highest readings in a given area are the norm).
And that's before we even begin to talk about dose estimates based on actual whole-body scans of individuals.
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Public Relations. Read the pro-Nuclear takes on the accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl...
Junkdrawer
Apr 2013
#23
Increased radiation levels were measured from Chernobyl as far away as Florida
davidn3600
Apr 2013
#15
Well ... she is an expert in pediatrics and has been studying radiation for quite some time.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#95
I notice that she has a handful of anti-nuclear letters in scientific journals.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#167
do you have an example? It would save me an hour of watching the YouTube video.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#165
Well, coal really is dirty and deadly. And if our only choice was dirty coal or nuclear....
Junkdrawer
Apr 2013
#10
Nuclear Energy is the solution to the energy crisis just like caviar is the solution to world hunger
Junkdrawer
Apr 2013
#12
Cut out the massive taxpayer subsidies that nuclear has gotten, and is getting, and you'd find
byeya
Apr 2013
#14
Did you read the article in C&E News in the opening comment of this subthread?
Buzz Clik
Apr 2013
#161
And your opinion is worth exactly as much time as you put into defending it: nothing, in this case.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#33
All those who say bullshit: read the article. The highly respected Jim Hansen participated.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#28
You are quite welcome. I love DU when people get into analysis and reasoned debate. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#37
You have your reading comprehension wrong & you don't grasp I said nothing in favour of nuclear. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#169
... because we are not Denmark and the Republicans are not Denmarkian, for starters. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#185
+1, except I'd use "cost trendline" instead of "learning curve". nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#189
But renewable non-carbon is just not going to pick up all the slack in the next 37 years???
roomtomove
Apr 2013
#127
Aside from thyroid problems, those with high doses in Japan will be susceptible to
Dustlawyer
Apr 2013
#16
Yeah, I guessed it would be those 2; I think they're more dishonest than Andrew Wakefield
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#49
All about genes; nothing about vaccines; that doesn't vindicate Wakefield in the slightest
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#98
The MIT researchers did nothing more than pass along industry claims uncritically.
kristopher
Apr 2013
#176
Peer review so judicious, the same company accepted a paper generated by a random text generator...
SidDithers
Apr 2013
#206
A fictional web posting about a fictional academic at a fictional academic institution?
kristopher
Apr 2013
#209
It's a nice big article about correlation with enough science-y terms to make people think it's
Brickbat
Apr 2013
#54
The pediatrics paper is published in an open journal where you pay to get published.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#94
That is not at all unusual and says nothing about the quality of the publication.
kristopher
Apr 2013
#143
Plenty of bullets already upthread: data cherry picking is a big one. Bogus paper. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#170
yes, I prefer to get my information from the consensus of the scientific community as a whole.
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2013
#121
And if their moms had just laid in a supply of aseptic milk as directed....
Brother Buzz
Apr 2013
#61
The use and proliferation of nuclear energy/weapons will prove to be the stupidest endeavor
Zorra
Apr 2013
#59
Interesting. So my granddaughter was in kindergarten in Germany when Chernobyl happened. Does that
jwirr
Apr 2013
#65
Talked with her mother and it seems that three generations have this problem. Grandma was never near
jwirr
Apr 2013
#122
How am i being irrational? by purchasing a gieger counter, which i shouldve bought a long time ago?
darkangel218
Apr 2013
#86
You obviously read this thread too, and saw i talked about Chernobyl and how unsafe nuclear plants
darkangel218
Apr 2013
#102
There are a hundred or more power plants in the US and many more all over the world.
darkangel218
Apr 2013
#106
The highest possible exposure on the West coast is thousands of times lower?????????
roomtomove
Apr 2013
#128