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Friday, June 1, 2012
Alvarez Fear Mongers
Robert Alvarez spews fear mongering in this op-ed about NPR's stance on the contaminated blue fin tuna. He immediately employs the oldest trick of anti-nukes which is to bring up atomic bombs, which is a straw man. Never once does he discuss the actual concentrations of cesium in the fish, and attempt to relate those concentrations to doses in humans, because he knows that the result will be trivial.
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