http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...m_medium=tweet


japanese should be fined for that. Those big wigs totally neglected the power plant until it was too late, shoulda asked for help a week before they did. Idiots.

 

to bad this "fallout" wasn't picked up by any of our highly sensitive monitoring stations.

 

my newborn child has 10 toes, how do you explain that?

 

also: the type of radioactive material that was threatening the US takes years to cause cancer and death and, generally, is inhaled as a particulate.

pretty sure that's a problem for anyone in utero.

 

billions of years of evolution?

 

The article is published by Aljazeera. Someone should confirm their sources.

 

^ my reaction too.

 

wow, theres ALOT wrong with this.

First off, whats the first thing they teach you in statistics?

CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION

First of all that report on infant mortality, the 35% increase? yeah it would be alarming if you were talking about a significantly large number but heres the actual numbers from the report (which there was conveniently no link to in the above article)

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.c...atic-incr.html

yep, that whopping 35% is 3 deaths. Also if you want to have a meaningful comparison it should be of a at least a year before and a year after, using only a control of four weeks is not nearly enough, especially when your dealing with numbers in the single digits.

They also dont even look at a single infant death case to see if any of them could have even remotely been connected to radiation poisoning, infant death includes everything, abuse, choking, SIDS, hell I could have made the same argument that the extra 3 deaths a week were caused by us bombing Libya, since it was happening half a world away at the same time!

And the BIGGEST thing that should have you guys questioning this is THERES BEEN NO INCREASE IN INFANT MORTALITY IN JAPAN. You know, the place on the other side of the world where this **** happened? if our infant mortality jumped 35% on this even though we didnt get anymore radiation over here than using a cell phone (http://www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/ra...ling-data.html) you would think they would be dropping like flies over there right? Or even in Hawaii which is twice as close??

Jeez guys, we really need to apply some critical thinking to and a bit of our own research to all these articles with inflammatory headlines that get passed around so easily on the internet. When I googled the names of the doctors looking for their essay all I got was two full pages of hits with pretty much the exact same headline as this thread. This is what the internet does to us now, we just want to get inflamed over headlines without actually reading it and forming our own opinions. We've become the TL;DR generation.

 

Even if every other point made is ignored or disputed, this one should stand!