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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima Meltdown Driving Increased Abnormalities Among US Infants [View all]FBaggins
(26,731 posts)160. Lol! I would have hidden the post too..
...if I made one that far wrong.
Did you go back and delete the ones from last year as well?
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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