My own personal interest in the passionate discourse that surrounds nuclear power and radiation and the effects it has (or doesn’t) on cell biology fuels me to continue to read, evaluate with a level-headed critical perspective, and learn from the various information that abounds on the topic.
Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of information available that seems to be compiled with a very focused and premeditated goal. Thus my post title…maybe it should be simpler = science vs hysteria?
Case in point, Fukushima’s Children are Dying. This piece is far from honest in that it not only uses alarmist language and unsubstantiated or vague claims about certain abnormality, it twists the information resourced for the piece. Sadly, this is exactly the type of information that those who have been brainwashed into believing that radiation at any level is death inducing have been prepared to soak up without question.
On the other hand, it is nice to see that if one makes a concerted effort to find responsible inquiry, it does exist. Is there a link? If there is it is not immediately obvious and requires careful methodical research and analysis.
Even from a very simplistic linguistic perspective, the difference between these two approaches is apparent from the titles of the pieces.
Fukushima’s Children are Dying – Obvious from the get go that the jury is in and there is no need for further (honest) inquiry.
Are Fukushima’s children developing thyroid cancer? – Starts with a question and ends with an honest statement about the state of uncertainty about any conclusive causal relationship.
Why do I care? Because subjective and biased damification (I know that’s not a word…think slander if you prefer) of nuclear power and radiation have the very real negative force of eliminating a safe and environmentally friendly energy source as a viable option from the world when it is desperately needed.
Peace
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