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In reply to the discussion: Anything you'd like to know about Fukushima? [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)It's more like I'm an anti-tobacco activist calling out other activists who cherrypick and misrepresent data from cancer and emphysema studies to scare the general populace and appeal to emotion rather than reason. I do it because when emotions die down and people actually read the studies and find out they were lied to, they'll wonder why, if anti-tobacco activists had some case against it, they would have to lie to make it.
To be clear, I am unequivocally anti-fission power and anti-nuclear weapons, because the evidence shows that they are dangerous to human health, the environment, and life as we know it.
When I see people on the moonbat fringe of this movement saying the West Coast is going to get "fried" by radiation, or that seastar wasting syndrome is caused by Fukushima radiation, or that a pound of plutonium would give everyone on earth cancer, or that Chernobyl was responsible for a million deaths, I absolutely am going to speak up and make every effort to distance myself and other rational nuclear skeptics from them. We have a case completely founded in the evidence; there's absolutely no need to scaremonger or lie to make a point.