Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
by tscherno on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:13PM
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Sure, I just wanted to point out the sentiment which I feel most have. Smoking was also scientifically safe in the 70s.
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Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
by parineum on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:17PM
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The point is that there was never a time where Nuclear became unsafe. It was never a lie.
The reverse of your analogy would be if cigarettes were actually good for you but we banned them because two people died of lung cancer.
Re:Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online
by Cybiote on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:50PM
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That's not accurate. By the 1960s and 70s, the scientific consensus [1] not only strongly believed smoking was a causal factor in lung cancer but also knew it contained radioactive isotopes of Polonium (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509609/) and lead.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/history/inde...