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This article is deliberately misleading. It's wearing its biases on its sleeve by admitting to only the direct deaths of Chernobyl (43) and saying that the WHO'
by zik 11y ago
This article is deliberately misleading. It's wearing its biases on its sleeve by admitting to only the direct deaths of Chernobyl (43) and saying that the WHO's projected tally of 4000 deaths merely "might suffer some ill effects". Death is certainly a pretty serious ill effect.
> The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests it could reach 4,000 civilian deaths, a figure which does not include military clean-up worker casualties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll#Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...