No Worries: Fukushima Radiation Didn't Make it to L.A. Beaches

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36. Non-sequitur.

1. The study was an academic one, not a government one.

2. The results are in line with what is expected. In other words, this is not a surprise.

3. Buildings falling in South Manhattan affecting those in South Manhattan is not the same as radioactive water being released into the world's largest ocean more than 5,000 miles away.

The only ones surprised and screeching about it are those, who for some strange and possibly perverse reason want the Fukushima Daiichi disaster to be much, much worse than it is. They want San Francisco to liquefy and dissolve into the ocean or something.

They took near absolute glee that sea stars are melting. (Sorry, still not radiation.)

It's like some of the anti-fracking people who, when a California earthquake was reported, asked whether there was fracking. I don't like fracking, but I know enough science to understand that plate tectonics causes most earthquakes.

Some people here don't know enough science to understand dilution and dispersion. They apparently think that anything Fukushima Daiichi does could pollute the entire Pacific Ocean five thousand miles away. The science illiteracy boggles the mind.