Black Swan Theory and anti-nuclear sentiment

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9. He's wrong, and the Japanese were right.

There's been no acute fatality risk from Fukushima. No one has died, and the highest estimated risk from radiation (workers at the reactor early on) is mortality of one in twenty.

We should not talk about small probabilities? That's all the insurance industry does.

Taleb sounds like a totally self-absorbed moron in love with the sound of his own rhetoric.