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His response to cancer as a possible outcome of radiation exposure following from a nuclear accident is troubling: "I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and f
by Dotnaught 7y ago
His response to cancer as a possible outcome of radiation exposure following from a nuclear accident is troubling: "I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer."
- jcranmer 7y agoHe almost made the point that the nuclear accident killed far less people than the tsunami that caused it, but instead went down the route that cancer isn't a big deal. The tsunami killed over 15,000 people. The nuclear disaster is estimated to eventually kill 100-ish people due to excess cancer cases from radioactive releases.
- luckylion 7y agoDon't forget that interviews are usually edited ("for brevity"), and especially in Der Spiegel of 2020 (as opposed to, say, 1980), I wouldn't be suprised if they heavily edited it.
- Krasnol 7y agoIt's not like they put words in his mouth...
- luckylion 7y agoI don't know, I haven't seen the raw text. I trust that they would, though, they've lost most of their journalistic standards.
- war1025 7y agoIt's a pretty well documented fact that people get misquoted all the time by journalists. Not quite Gell-Mann amnesia, but something close.
- C14L 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_... That guy had won several awards for his "reporting".
- Krasnol 7y agoWhich is more a reason why they wouldn't slip here.
- luckylion 7y agoIs it though? If you catch somebody in a lie, will you trust his next statement more or less? On the one hand, you could argue "he will likely not lie again, knowing that I've uncovered his previous lie, therefore I can trust him more", on the other hand, past behavior isn't bad at predicting future behavior.
- JetSpiegel 7y ago> Is it though? If you catch somebody in a lie, will you trust his next statement more or less? Claus Relotius has left Der Spiegel, I don't need to trust him. Would you trust his boss not to triple check everything after a massive scandal?
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- jkqwzsoo 7y ago> Lovelock: The tsunami in Japan in 2011 killed 20,000 people or thereabouts, but there wasn’t anybody much hurt by the Fukushima nuclear power plant itself, that’s the extraordinary thing.