Radiation Found in Japanese Rice!!!!

Radiation is dangerous stuff.  Of course it is also a miracle of modernity that reaches every aspect of civilization.  Over time, I have become steadily more convinced that the general population in America and the world has a grotesquely distorted understanding of these facts.  Led by tree-huggers and do-gooders – who, I am increasingly convinced, believe the nonsense they promulgate – the “common knowledge” of the general public is most distorted on the subject of danger.

Scientists and everyday circumstances constantly rebut this distorted understanding but the bugaboos persist. 

·         The “China Syndrome” is a fairy tale.

·         Nuclear plants and waste are safe.

·         Yucca Mountain would make waste even safer.

·         Coal ash is the most dangerous waste on the planet and getting worse each time we improve air quality.  

·         Major disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi pale in comparison to many other disasters.

·         “There is no such thing as a safe dose radiation,” the chicken-littles chant.  Yet there is radiation everywhere, all the time and radiation is the very foundation of medical diagnosis and treatment.

[Most of this comes from the goofy, pinko-commie, “Physicians for Social Responsibility”;  a group who coined the singularly irresponsible phrase:  “No radiation levels can be shown to be demonstrably safe.”  Well that has to be correct since it is impossible to prove a negative – morons with an agenda.]

It is not that these groups are wrong;  it’s that they deliberately create vast distortion regarding dangers and safety while interfering significantly with both and preventing the expansion of zero carbon electricity production.

As an aside, on an issue that is, in my mind, closely related, I have many friends who scoff when I mention that the New York Times has biases and an agenda.  Such folks can easily see the bias at FoxNews but they are deaf and blind to it from their own outlets. 

[FoxNews, we might agree, is particularly heavy handed and clumsy about their biases but at the same time not as self delusional as the NYT crowd.]

This morning, I found a perfect confluence of my pet peeves.  Please read this:

See what I mean?  RADIATION DISCOVERED IN RICE NEAR TOKYO.  OMG!!!  But later:  “… the radiation was well within safe levels … about one-tenth of government set limits.  … two other samples tested … showed no contamination.”  How many people read no further than the headline? 

Boys and girls, don’t drink the kool-aide.