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If you asked 100 random people on the street, I'll bet most would say the Fukushima nuclear disaster killed hundreds or thousands of people. As a single data p
by GordonS 4y ago
If you asked 100 random people on the street, I'll bet most would say the Fukushima nuclear disaster killed hundreds or thousands of people.
As a single data point, I just asked my wife (who, for background, is well educated and pays close attention to the news), and her guess was "hundreds".
The modern mass media has a lot to answer for.
- osigurdson 4y agoDid the media (in 2011) state that 100s or thousands died?
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- formerly_proven 4y agoMedia, perhaps, but interest groups probably share more of the blame, because the FUD originates with them. E.g. Greenpeace claims one million deaths from Chernobyl, GSS claimed something to the effect of "more than 1.5 million with most of the damage still to come" a few years ago. I almost can't blame people in an environment like that when they think TMI or Fukushima killed hundreds or thousands and gave a lot of people cancer or whatever.