Fukushima's Children are Dying

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22. Lol... nice try. Let's play a game.

Let's see who can come up with the most reasons why that post is entirely nonsensical. I'll go first.

1) If thyroid abnormalities were caused by Hiroshima & Nagasaki and the rate is the same around Fukushima... then Fukushima isn't the cause.

2) Ionizing radiation has been known to damage DNA, but what hasn't been shown (unless your sources are Godzilla movies) is that impacted DNA being passed down from one generation to the next (let alone persisting).

3) Even if damaged DNA could replicate in the next generation, how would an entire population get the same genetic abnormality only 2-3 generations later? Again... unless comic books are your source, this simply doesn't happen. The damage to each DNA strand would be different.

4) "Japan" didn't suffer massive irradiation any of those three times... distinct parts of Japan did (IOW... it is in no sense the "same population". One of the three sampling locations was in Nagasaki, but the other two were hundreds of miles away... yet have the same "Abnormality" rates. Wouldn't you expect the descendants of Nagasaki to have a greater impact from this imagined effect of yours than those in Aomori (1300 km away)?

5) There aren't parts of the world that have shown much lower rates of these supposed "abnormalities". You can't go and come up with a theory as to why the Japanese have a higher rate... until you first show that they do.

6) Speaking of which... if they really did have a far higher rate of "pre-cancerous" "abnormalities" due to "Japan" suffering "massive irradiation", then you would expect a higher rate of thyroid cancer (and deaths from same) compared to the rest of the world. Yet this isn't the case.

Ok... your turn.