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Environment & Energy

FBaggins

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16. No even close.

Reply to Demeter (Reply #15)

Thu Dec 26, 2013, 10:36 PM

Dec 2013

Nagasaki, for instance, is almost 1,000 miles away and not close to downwind. I131 has too short a half-life for there to be any significant exposure there.

I tend to rely on the before-and-after data.

You can't... because there is no before and after data.

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Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster [View all] Demeter Dec 2013 OP

JUNK SCIENCE!!! PamW Dec 2013 #1

Mangano's self-serving lies PamW Dec 2013 #2

Since when is a "pre-cancerous nodule" equivalent to hypothyroidism? Demeter Dec 2013 #4

They aren't "pre-cancerous nodules" FBaggins Dec 2013 #7

Which is why their parents can't get insurance for their kids. I see. Demeter Dec 2013 #8

Untrue. FBaggins Dec 2013 #10

Concerning the author Demeter Dec 2013 #3

Did you forget the sarcasm icon? LouisvilleDem Dec 2013 #5

So, if a man is working to put himself out of business, he's a fake? Demeter Dec 2013 #6

Yes, one of is on the wrong side of the looking glass LouisvilleDem Dec 2013 #11

Of course his livelihood depends on it. FBaggins Dec 2013 #9

So shut down the nukes, and put him out of business! Demeter Dec 2013 #13

Junk science and junk journals PamW Dec 2013 #18

CONFIRMED: 36 Percent Of Fukushima Kids Have Abnormal Thyroid Growths And Doctors Are In The Dark Demeter Dec 2013 #12

Thyroid Control Screening Reveals Much Higher Percentages of Cysts and Nodules... FBaggins Dec 2013 #14

Since the entire nation was/is still subject to fallout Demeter Dec 2013 #15

No even close. FBaggins Dec 2013 #16

I'll take what Caldicott is talking about madokie Dec 2013 #17

Caldicott is as bad as Mangano PamW Dec 2013 #19

MISREPRESENTATION and LIES PamW Dec 2013 #20

Fukushima: Wave of Radiation Will Be Ten Times Bigger than All of the Radiation from Nuclear Tests C mitty14u2 Dec 2013 #21