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I don't buy it. For example in Germany MRI is usually called "Kernspintomographie" ("nuclear spin tomography") and nobody has any issue with that.
by fsh 7y ago
I don't buy it. For example in Germany MRI is usually called "Kernspintomographie" ("nuclear spin tomography") and nobody has any issue with that.
- Baeocystin 7y agoIt was genuinely a problem here in the US. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4a3e/c44df38873b8bf1e79a30e290d4cbdf9f131.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4a3e/c44df38873b8bf1e79a30e...
- ahartmetz 7y agoIsn't it more commonly called "Magnetresonanztomographie" (MRT) now? Same PR problem, people are scared of atoms.
- lucb1e 7y agoAnd yet I can't step out my door without finding anti nuclear posters and stickers in Germany. I've never seen this for any other topic: not Jesus, not Snowden asylum, not je suis charlie, but nuclear power? Somehow someone managed to setup a hugely effective brainwashing campaign for that.
- ryanmercer 7y agoAnd the field in the United States is 'nuclear medicine', a specialty of 'radiology'. And, well, an 'x-ray' is called an 'x-ray' not a 'bone selfie'.