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[mixmastamyk]

I grew up next to the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory just north west of Los Angeles. Due to a cover up, no one really knew they built a nuclear reactor there in a warehouse-type building with no containment, that of course had a meltdown and explosion a year or two later. All of my parent's generation from the area died by roughly 60 years old of cancer.

It still boggles my mind that anyone would be so reckless whenever I think about it. Never underestimate the government's (and associated corp's) capacity for pure evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory

[FrozenVoid → mixmastamyk]

>Never underestimate the government's (and associated corp's) capacity for pure evil.

Except when the topic is water fluoridation, vaccines or genetically modified crops, then its all right and above criticism.

[echelon → FrozenVoid]

The things you named are safe and yield quantifiable benefits. Ionizing radiation, on the other hand, is entirely deleterious.

[tomsmeding → echelon]

Relatively safe; we still don't know for sure whether there are no negative consequences. But definitely in another league than ionizing radiation.

[delazeur → tomsmeding]

> we still don't know for sure whether there are no negative consequences

That is a carefully-worded statement that will always be true about everything.

[presspot → FrozenVoid]

This is a fascinating story about a genetically modified crop (RoundUp Ready cotton), a pigweed that naturally selected against it, and murder.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/02/531272125/episo...