On: Fear may be more dangerous than radiation

[lukeschlather]

>it did not say that radiation does not harm people.

Neither did I.

[Tichy → lukeschlather]

The article did not even mention radiation levels at Fukushima, yet you quoted it as radiation being not worse than cigarettes.

[tptacek → Tichy]

The radiation levels at the plant gate at Fukushima are quite probably much less carcinogenic than a cigarette habit.

[Tichy → tptacek]

So why don't they evacuate 50km radius around everybody who lights up a cigarette?

Don't get me wrong, I want to believe you, and I am actually hopeful that no lasting damage has been done at Fukushima. But somehow all the optimism does not seem to add up 100%.

[tptacek → Tichy]

Because standing 50km away from someone who lights up a cigarette produces no measurable elevation in cancer risk.

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