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Fukushima radiation
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Fukushima radiation
Is it just me, or are Fukushima-radiation based theories the new, popular form of pseudoscience? It feels like I can't go a week without hearing someone coming up with another new conspiracy theory about Fukushima. Here's the latest one:

http://www.wesupportorganic.com/2014/02/...abies.html

Has anyone else heard any? What is the worst one you've heard? How do you respond to people stupid enough to believe in this?
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#2
RE: Fukushima radiation
The study is real....even if it is a year old.

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownlo...erID=28599
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#3
RE: Fukushima radiation
YT stalwart Thunderf00t has made a few videos on this very thing. I'll put up a couple here but I recommend anyone interested in this to visit his channel for the rest - even if I do have to reign myself in each time he says "nukular".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7Zm8XO7Zc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qwOc3ytqaw
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#4
RE: Fukushima radiation
I think some of the most annoying shit are the maps, such as:

[Image: A-Radioactive-Nightmare.jpg]

I mean, WHOA COLORS. THAT MUST BE BAD. Seriously, there is no real information conveyed by these gradient images and people freak the fuck out over them.
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#5
RE: Fukushima radiation
It's times like this that I REALLY HATE mainstream media Dodgy
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#6
RE: Fukushima radiation
No kidding. Nobody bothers questioning the media on this issue (among others), it's so goddamn annoying!
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RE: Fukushima radiation
(February 19, 2014 at 7:45 am)Psykhronic Wrote: No kidding. Nobody bothers questioning the media on this issue (among others), it's so goddamn annoying!

And yet this is PRECISELY WHAT we should be doing!

Thinking Just gets so frustrating.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#8
RE: Fukushima radiation
Yeah, I have a feeling this sort of frustration is gonna last a while. The media is buried so far into its own ass that I don't expect any sort of hard-hitting, thought-inspiring journalism from mainstream sources for a long time.
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#9
RE: Fukushima radiation
It bugs me that everyone is freaking out over Fukushima without ever bothering to learn real science and apply it to the situation instead of just blindly jumping on board with the media hype. It's the same as with religion: faith isn't always bad, but blind faith is terrible.
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#10
RE: Fukushima radiation
Fukushima comes up often in the discussion of Seastar wasting disease. It has little to do with Seastar wasting disease. Yet it always is brought up as a possibility despite the fact that studies of infected sea stars show no traces of cesium.

People seem to think that radiation is some magical, communicable substance.

In some cases it is, in most cases it is not.

It is relatively easy to under estimate the damage of bacterial infestations and viral incursions in sea stars, which seems to be the real cause of Seastar wasting disease.

Just a related topic that I find highly interesting.
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