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NNadir

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13. The antinuke cults, like all cults, are immune from correction by information.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 01:50 PM
Apr 2024

Last edited Sun Apr 28, 2024, 08:22 AM - Edit history (1)

If you ask a member of this cult to show that what they ignorantly call "nuclear waste," about which they know zero, being as the are, unacquainted with the contents of scientific literature, to show that in the seventy year history of its storage, used nuclear fuel it has killed as many people as fossil fuel waste, aka air pollution, will kill in the next ten hours - only literature from the primary scientific literature can be accepted as proof - they'll either slither away, change the subject, or chant insipidly.

I have never seen any other response from any of these generic moral and intellectual lightweights.

The death toll from air pollution egged on by the antinuke cults not giving a fuck about climate change in the next ten hours will be between 7,000 and 8,000 people.

Again, not that antinukes can read: Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).

They lack the moral depth to give a shit about climate change or the death toll associated with fossil fuel waste, lack the intellectual depth to understand even low level science, or even to compare numbers like the numbers in this appalling document:

2023 World Energy Outlook published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Table A.1a on Page 264.



They are, in general, unable to understand basic facts, like whether 7 is bigger than 29 or if 7 + 8 is greater than 29.

Note that the number 29 would be much greater if stupidity and ignorance had not prevailed.

My son, by the way, doesn't give a shit about immoral people who attempt to shit on his important work to come to the aid of humanity. I'm proud to have raised him right.

As a scientist, I am wasting as much time addressing cult thinking as a molecular biologist might waste talking to an antivaxxer, although antivaxxers have killed far fewer people than antinukes kill every damned day, as antinukes are responsible for between 17,000 and 19,000 deaths each day, every day. Covid never killed 19,000 people in a day, not on its worst day.

Contempt for science is not hard to recognize.

Antinukes chant away endlessly, but there is not one among them who can demonstrate a shred of human decency.

They are very toxic fools, responsible for killing the planet in my view.

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