California fire near nuclear accident site

Re:California fire near nuclear accident site by Rebelgecko on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @03:54PM (#18497608)

IMO this is the laziest kind of fearmongering. There's nothing wrong with being skeptical of government claims, especially ones that are unverifiable to the average person (are there WMDs in Iraq? Who killed JFK? What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? etc). However, this is not one of those unverifiable things. You can get a geiger counter on Amazon for less than $200.

It seems, well, socially irresponsible for the Physicians for Social Responsibility to make statements about radioactive contamination that contradict both government and independent tests.

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Re:California fire near nuclear accident site by m0rose on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @04:23PM (#18497889)

I don't think it's lazy, I think it's intentional. The cleanup efforts have been in the planning phase for 22 years, so perhaps some fear mongering to drum up more public outrage/outcry is what needs to happen to make someone do something.

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