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4. Really? Antinukes want references?
Mon Apr 15, 2024, 10:40 AM
Apr 2024

This is new.

I repeated ask antinukes to report, from reputable reports, using the primary scientific literature, what the death toll from radiation releases at Fukushima was/is/will be.

My personal electronic library has oodles and oodles of papers touching on the subject.

I have over 20 years at DU reported on the death toll related to dangerous fossil fuels, about which they couldn't care less. Generically I often cite the Lancet paper from 2020, Global Burden of Disease, and Hansen's famous paper from 2013 clearly showing lives saved (up to that point) by nuclear energy.

I have yet to meet an antinuke who gives a shit about the 80 to 90 million people who died from air pollution over the last 13 years they've been mindlessly carrying on about Fukushima without ever showing any evidence that they've bothered to open a scientific paper on the subject.

The Fukushima obsessed are members of a cult, and experience teaches that no amount of information can change recitation of a cult's dogma.

The information on radiation releases from the Fukushima and the related death toll is the subject of much reporting in the scientific literature which I've been following for all 13 years. Addressing whether Japan killed more people by burning fossil fuels when they shut their reactors would require that the addressee actually understand thar fossil fuels are incredibly dangerous.

I can easily pull up reference to the number of radiation deaths at Fukushima as well as the numbers connected with the needless evacuations driven by radiation paranoia but right now I'm not at my computer. Producing this information is unlikely however to impress a single antinuke. Again, no amount of information can address the dogma of a cult, whether the cult is Trumpism, antivaxism or antinukism.

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