It's sad to see them use inflated numbers to criticize the numbers they claim are inflated: “Although the 31 immediate Chernobyl-related deaths are sad,” he co

It's sad to see them use inflated numbers to criticize the numbers they claim are inflated: “Although the 31 immediate Chernobyl-related deaths are sad,” he concludes, “the number of fatalities is remarkably small compared with many energy-related accidents, such as the Benxihu coal mine disaster in China 1942, which killed about 1500 miners, and the 1975 Banqiao dam accident, also in China, which killed about 250,000 people.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam#Casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam#Casualties The dam failure killed approx. 26,000 people, and 145,000 died as a result of subsequent epidemics and famine according to the official record. While this was a very significant loss of life, inflating it to argue with other numbers you contest seems pretty shallow.