Re:Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies (2019)
by 08-15 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:34PM
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> It’s so bad, I would expect it only from right-wing disinformation efforts who are self-parodies of incorrectness.
That's not very helpful. It would be helful, if you explained how it is a bad analogy for ionizing radiation. (By the way, that wasn't even the point. I merely explained LNT in a context where everyone immediately recognizes it as ridiculously wrong.)
> do not try to impugn the model as stemming from idiots
I would never! The guy who came up with LNT ten years after the conclusion of the Manhattan project, Herman Muller, was not an idiot!
That's not very helpful. It would be helful, if you explained how it is a bad analogy for ionizing radiation. (By the way, that wasn't even the point. I merely explained LNT in a context where everyone immediately recognizes it as ridiculously wrong.)
> do not try to impugn the model as stemming from idiots
I would never! The guy who came up with LNT ten years after the conclusion of the Manhattan project, Herman Muller, was not an idiot!
He was a fraud.