Japan riled by WHO's Fukushima cancer warning

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10. And I spend too much time trying to be clever.

WHO reported that if you stayed in the two worst areas of the prefecture for a year and you were a female infant, you would have a 1.25% lifetime chance of getting thyroid cancer instead of .75%.

That's an accurate assessment, and an increased chance of cancer is nothing to ignore. However:

1) No one - not infant nor adult - stayed in the most contaminated areas.
2) Thyroid cancer has a 97% cure rate.

So after antinukes attacked the WHO for saying they're sugarcoating radiation effects at Fukushima, the locals - the people who have to live there - say they're overdoing it. Call me callous, but it's much fucking ado about nothing - and the Japanese apparently agree with me. I'm not communicating with antinukes much anymore because while they're kept awake by the prospect of a remote desert mountain leaking half a million years from now, the planet is burning up. We need nuclear to help cut carbon drastically or we're FUBAR. Antinukes just need counseling and medication.

Re: Greenpeace, I'm generally supportive but they're wrong about nuclear and don't have the guts to admit it for fear of losing their cult funding (except for their founder, ironically).