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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima Meltdown Driving Increased Abnormalities Among US Infants [View all]Generic Other
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What gives any defender of the nuclear industry the right to belittle or attack those who oppose it -- for any reason whatsoever? Rational or irrational -- whatever reason we have is reason enough that our views have more validity than yours. You are the one with the dangerous technology blowing your second-hand radiation contamination my way, not the other way around.
You have no right to tell any of us to go bleep ourselves because we express reasonable fear over the dangers of nuclear power. If we say we do not want to live under a nuclear cloud , that we do not accept the risks to our lives or the environment, that is the default position. You can characterize us as submoronic dingbats who have no understanding of science and thus have no right to express a view, but it does not change the fact that you seek to infringe on our space and environment with your questionable technology, not the other way around. And you don't have some inherent right to do that.
And you tell me to quit panicking because the increase in cancer is a mere 100 out of every million, a mere drop in the bucket. But that adds up to 48,839,795 in Washington, Oregon and California. 4883 will get sick. In one of the states where I live. The numbers don't sound so insignificant to me and my neighbors. I may be dumb but I am not so dumb I can't see for myself what is or isn't hazardous to me.
But you go on attacking the victims of your unconscionable technology. Because that is really all you have left.
edited to correct my bad math.