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> citations ... among many others. I must have missed non-WHO citations about how the mental health impact of the Chernobyl disaster was greater than the actua
by Diederich 10y ago
> citations ... among many others.
I must have missed non-WHO citations about how the mental health impact of the Chernobyl disaster was greater than the actual physical affect.
For many people in Belarus, Chernobyl was a very real, very physical health disaster.
> Where are yours?
Linked in the article I linked. Google trivially returns all kinds of well-documented health impacts in Belarus and neighboring areas.
Also, as reported, an eye-witness account of the suffering that Chernobyl brought to so many people.
- mpweiher 10y ago> Linked in the article I linked. Except the article says nothing of the sort. In fact, it explicitly states in the first paragraph that we don't know what the cause of those birth defects is. > eye-witness account of the suffering that Chernobyl brought Once again, you seem to miss the point: the point is not whether or not there was suffering, but what the biggest causes of the suffering was. And once again, the WHO concludes that the biggest cause of suffering were (sometimes severe) mental health effects (which can cause physical suffering). Also there were external effects such as the fall of the Soviet Union and the consequences of that. For example, life expectancy of Russian men dropped by ~10 years in the late 1980s and 1990s. Not due to radiation, but mostly due to alcohol (due to psycho-social/mental health effects).