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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
56. To make informed factual posts ... so to avoid
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 08:37 PM
Jan 2014

..... "Absurdly exaggerated and sensationalized reports that do not help anyone; rather they increase confusion, and decrease our ability to respond to such events appropriately."

and to repudiate inferential posts/articles that can be scientifically explained in many more obviously rational/logical ways ...


"This is the central thesis of science reporters who have been desperately trying to respond to scientifically illiterate fearmongerers printing headlines like "Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over" and "28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima". Our planet's entropy has, long ago, already rid itself of any credible threat from the Fukushima radiation, outside of the immediate evacuation zone. Fishing has long been suspended from Daiichi's vicinity, so there is no way that eating a legally caught fish can give you any significant Fukushima radiation."


on to the next feed-stock for the Soylent factories phantom power Jan 2014 #1
But it has nothing to do with Fukishema... zeemike Jan 2014 #2
Agreed yorokmok Jan 2014 #7
Maybe there we just a lot of pizzas ordered underpants Jan 2014 #8
Anchovies. ANCHOVIES! OnyxCollie Jan 2014 #10
Oh underpants Jan 2014 #19
I eat a tin of anchovies and a tin of smoked oysters for breakfast every day. OnyxCollie Jan 2014 #21
You know you don't do that. loudsue Jan 2014 #49
Fisheries off Japan aren't having similar problems. jeff47 Jan 2014 #13
no problems off japans coast? questionseverything Jan 2014 #24
One fish is not an entire fishery. jeff47 Jan 2014 #26
more from the article questionseverything Jan 2014 #29
You should try actually reading posts jeff47 Jan 2014 #32
Is this sarcasm? another_liberal Jan 2014 #30
That post was not mine, but it still wasn't Fukushima jeff47 Jan 2014 #35
Your logic does seem convincing . . . another_liberal Jan 2014 #36
Japan has sardines fisheries too. (nt) jeff47 Jan 2014 #38
in 2012 questionseverything Jan 2014 #45
Yes, but the fishery is still there. jeff47 Jan 2014 #46
Yes it is sarcasm zeemike Jan 2014 #47
Is everyone afraid to mention the word "pollution"? gtar100 Jan 2014 #3
You nailed it. Must never mention business. Blinders on! n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #15
The Domino Effect of Overfishing on Ocean Habitat: Many Species at Risk dixiegrrrrl Jan 2014 #4
K&R DeSwiss Jan 2014 #5
k and r --bookmarking for later reading. niyad Jan 2014 #6
This article suggests that the phenomena is not new nor unexpected grantcart Jan 2014 #9
You win the thread. Greed and overfishing, followed by protestations of 'IDK why! Help!' n/t freshwest Jan 2014 #16
Big Problem with that RobertEarl Jan 2014 #34
There is absolutely no scientific problem with the explanation, grantcart Jan 2014 #42
You bring up a good point RobertEarl Jan 2014 #43
This article is pegging my BS meter clayton72 Jan 2014 #11
This AP article? bananas Jan 2014 #18
I think this is a lie MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #12
Radiation, Japan, fish decline packman Jan 2014 #14
The sardines Berlin Expat Jan 2014 #22
Unbelievable, only one thread even mentions Fukishima! WORLDWIDE blackout of obvious cause. joanbarnes Jan 2014 #17
beause it has happened before and the reason is well known. grantcart Jan 2014 #20
with nuclear power questionseverything Jan 2014 #27
No one is saying radiation is good..... paleotn Jan 2014 #31
A banana expert? RobertEarl Jan 2014 #44
Seems reading comprehension.... paleotn Jan 2014 #48
So, you'll quit with the BED bullshit? RobertEarl Jan 2014 #52
If Fukishima is the cause, why have fisheries off Japan not collapsed? jeff47 Jan 2014 #33
They quit fishing off the coast of Japan RobertEarl Jan 2014 #37
Hey Robert! Looks like your time-traveling radiation took out another fishery jeff47 Jan 2014 #39
As usual you have no data RobertEarl Jan 2014 #41
Please stop posting crap from ENE as if it's a legitimate source of information. I am sick ChisolmTrailDem Jan 2014 #23
Nothing to do with Fukashima.... paleotn Jan 2014 #25
Wasn't there an enormous sardine cluster in Monterey Bay in the fall? Arugula Latte Jan 2014 #28
It is of note that Cs was high the last time the stock crashed RobertEarl Jan 2014 #40
Guess you missed these parts...... paleotn Jan 2014 #50
No. Didn't miss it RobertEarl Jan 2014 #53
Facts can sometimes help .... but it depends on posters intent ... MindMover Jan 2014 #51
Intent, indeed RobertEarl Jan 2014 #54
To make informed factual posts ... so to avoid MindMover Jan 2014 #56
What is absurd RobertEarl Jan 2014 #57
I will leave the absurdities to the absurd ... as for denial ... MindMover Jan 2014 #59
My defensive platitudes RobertEarl Jan 2014 #60
Skeptoid doesn't understand entropy bananas Jan 2014 #58
Here's the problem, mm RobertEarl Jan 2014 #62
These scientists aren't cognizant of the devastating oceanic ecosystem effects of kestrel91316 Jan 2014 #55
I'm sure it's nothing. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #61
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #63
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