Editorials & Other Articles
In reply to the discussion: Shock as sardines vanish off California - the entire Pacific coast - NOAA: We don’t know why [View all]MindMover
(5,016 posts)..... "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."