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Octafish

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14. Good point. The thing is they are almost alone trying to analyze what's going on.

Reply to caraher (Reply #11)

Wed Apr 3, 2013, 05:48 PM

Apr 2013

Here's analysis of that 2011 SciAm blog (the article includes links pro- and anti-nuclear power):

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/study-fukushima-radiation-has-already-killed-14000-americans.html

It's getting clear that the outsiders are left to make the best guesses they can. The insiders (the nuclear priesthood) have no interest in slowing their nuclear gravy train.

TEPCO has a track record of lying from March 11, 2011 to the present. They underestimated the scale of the disaster, as well as the types and amounts of radiation released. If anything, I'd bet the health effects will be much worse than what Mangano & Sherman have found. So, rather than slam them for their methodology in 2011, I'll go with those trying to learn more about a subject that seems to have dropped off the media radar.

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Interesting study. iemitsu Apr 2013 #1

They'll say smoking has decreased. Or something else. Never the elephant in the room. nt valerief Apr 2013 #2

Yep. How about the increased use of GM foods iemitsu Apr 2013 #3

Bwahaha. Yeah, up is down these days, and it's not like the major rags have real journalists to valerief Apr 2013 #5

lol, you win ... a NEW CAR! closeupready Apr 2013 #7

I can't get the link work for me madokie Apr 2013 #4

It's in google's cache bananas Apr 2013 #9

Thank you bananas :hi: madokie Apr 2013 #10

Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Radiation is invisible, so closeupready Apr 2013 #6

At the end of a program in a Nuclear Power Plant, I ask an energy official how did the facility count DhhD Apr 2013 #8

"...electron radiation coming off of large power lines..."? RC Apr 2013 #12

Mangano & Sherman are professional data cherry-pickers caraher Apr 2013 #11

Good point. The thing is they are almost alone trying to analyze what's going on. Octafish Apr 2013 #14

They're almost alone in imagining there's anything there to see caraher Apr 2013 #15

Well, what there is to see are three meltdowns and exposed spent fuel pools. Octafish Apr 2013 #16

Yes, what's happening where the picture is and nearby is awful caraher Apr 2013 #20

No where does EPA -- or the NRC, for that matter -- mention Fukushima and plutonium. Octafish Apr 2013 #22

Sorry caraher RobertEarl Apr 2013 #19

It's no "personal slam" to look at their methods and find them severely lacking caraher Apr 2013 #21

Well, you got one thing right RobertEarl Apr 2013 #23

When I was a child we used to fish there dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #13

Thanks for the memories! Octafish Apr 2013 #17

Come to think of it dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #18

So I checked with my parents, melanoma killed him dreamnightwind Apr 2013 #24