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Nearly every Fukushima mega-scare story I've encountered seems to go back to Arnie Gunderson, who is a professional anti-nuclear consultant. At the same time,
by api 13y ago
Nearly every Fukushima mega-scare story I've encountered seems to go back to Arnie Gunderson, who is a professional anti-nuclear consultant.
At the same time, I see a near information blackout from other authorities. There just doesn't seem to be much good information on this one way or the other.
Radiation is very easy to detect. If there's a serious leak, people outside Japan could see it. Where is this data?
- rangibaby 13y agoI take some reassurance that the anti-nuclear guys say we're fucked and pro-nuclear guys say nuclear is still the safest. That means the truth is probably somewhere in the middle ;-)
- api 13y agoI think it proves Heisenberg was right. Reality is determined by the political slant of the observer. :)
- MichaelGG 13y agoSorry if I downvoted sarcasm. Unless you meant "middle" literally as in anything exactly as written by the most extreme of either side, this is a bad way to reason about things. It's the kind of thinking that lets people say "well the anti-vaccine people are pretty strong about their views, but doctors disagree; it's probably somewhere in the middle" and slide about while being incorrect.
- anon1385 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam; also known as [argument from] middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean fallacy) is an informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions. This fallacy's opposite is the false dilemma.
- ekianjo 13y agoWell contrary to what anti-nuclear supporters say, we know from a fact that in terms of death ratio per MWatts produced, Nuclear energy is certainly one of the safest ways to produce energy out there. It's not because there is one bad recent incident that it puts a sudden question mark on the whole technology.