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3. It is nonetheless true that if we limited all radiation...
Wed Oct 3, 2018, 09:06 AM
Oct 2018

...exposure to zero - which poorly educated people seem to think appropriate - every living thing on the planet would die. Potassium is essential to life, and all of the potassium on Earth is radioactive.

It would be a less stupid world in which regulation of exposure to the potentially harmful materials were risk based using epidemiological data.

The number of deaths from cancer and other diseases from radiation are trivial when compared to deaths from combustion products.

That people get excited about potential exposure to radiation and basically ignore combustion products they are continuously exposed to is a reflection of vast public ignorance.

If Trump says it's a good thing that the sky is blue, that does not imply that we insist it be green.

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