"harry" wrote in message
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On Apr 13, 11:04 am, wrote:
On Friday, April 13, 2012 9:42:23 AM UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 13/04/2012 08:15, harry wrote:
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Nearly a million people have died soon due to cancer according to
some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernob..._the_Catastrop...

Wikipedia is only slightly better than indymedia as a source, as it
relies upon collective opinion, rather than provable fact. ISTR a
well-known personality who tried to correct their own date of birth
several times, before giving up, as so many other people 'knew' better
and kept changing it back to the wrong date.

In fact it looks as if harry is shooting himself in the foot with this
one - reading the wikipedia article I get the impression that the book it
describes (which is the one where the statistic comes from) has been
positively reviewed by those with an anti-nuclear axe to grind, and
highly critically by everyone else...
For example, the quote from one reviewer "The value of this review is not
zero, but negative, as its bias is obvious only to specialists, while
inexperienced readers may well be put into deep error. ... Yablokov's
assessment for the mortality from Chernobyl fallout of about one million
... puts this book in a range of rather science fiction than science"

Ah. They would say that wouldn't they? Some one is lying.
But the Germans and the Japs have packed the idea in.
Now they must have a reason, it might cost them billions.

In the case of the krauts, its essentially because with a proportional
voting system, the merkel depends on green votes to stay in power.

In the case of the Japs, Fukushima is a tad of a problem with the voters.
Understandably given the massive number who cant go back to their
houses, even tho that much less than the tsunami ****ed over.