I have a friend who has posted a number of those radiation maps, he is convinced that there is a wave of radiation that will, I dunno... turn us all into glowing lizard people, or something. He buys into pretty much every conspiracy theory, though. If the government was doing one-fifth of the stuff he believes it is, the planet would probably be a lifeless husk by now.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
