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In reply to the discussion: Starfish dying in the NW Pacific [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)more than statistical variance.
They have been taken by a few of the usual suspects as evidence that the government is lying, (such as prison planet), and no, it is not a great number of them, see again things like the Albion Monitor for the GOVERNMENT IS LYING RUN!!!!. But to say zero is just silly. The FIRST STUDY done by the University of Columbia indicated that, it was repeated... and we have SOME cases, as in a small number, as in a very small number. This is just like our friend pushing his crap that micro sieverts are causing wasting disease in star fish, which is known not to.
It also puts credibility at risk of nuclear fans. Just saying. The two links go back to NIH just saying.
By the way, I expect to see higher rates of cancer due to the nuclear cloud from Fukushima in the Western Coast of the US early in the incident and the fact that detectors went strangely off line tells me they were expecting higher radiation than they were willing to tell us, and that will add to the conspiracy theories. No, not that many EPA monitors go off line for maintenance during a critical time at the same time. The numbers, likely, will be at the same level as suspected after nuclear open air testing during the cold war, which is some cases. (More from the testing in NV incidentally, and a few of those from troops purposely exposed to it)
I expect to see a lot more cases in Japan, though given most of the crap was blown to sea, a lot less than was seen after Chernobyl.