uranium paranoiaum
November 13, 2013
“India’s generation of children crippled by uranium waste” screams the ‘World news’ section of the British tabloid The Observer.
The byline reads: ‘Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations’
Ahem! Let us go through this article first and then treat it with the contempt & disdain that it deserves.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/india-punjab-children-uranium-pollution
Let me say, I admire this excellent effort at factifuging. However, never mind the facts, if you do a google search, you get copious amounts of random rumours and fearmongering… No real analysis, no understanding at all – all are characterized by a mere store-and-forward procedure!
“…he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture everything in nature to support his hypothesis.”
— Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy. Read the rest of this entry »
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