Chernobyl Wildlife Is Thriving

Because removing humans is better than the radiation hazards.

Ben Carson's Scientific Ignorance

Is discussed here.

SARI Contaminates The Green Valley News

Because that's what science deniers do.

SARI Invades the HPS

The DeNiArs have gotten an opinion piece published in the latest issue of the Health Physics Society's Newsletter. I called my response, "LNT Fail", which I've emailed to the newsletter's editor.

I wonder if it will get published? See below.....

Could Dark Matter Cause Cancer?

Does it even exist?

4 Advanced Fission Rx's

Gone fissioning!

Bill Gates & China Team Up

To develop small nuclear reactor.

Here's A Video For DeNiArs

It discusses the difference between theories, hypotheses and laws.

Because one of the DeNiAr's ploys is to refer to the "LNT hypothesis".  

They're either too dumb to know the difference, or they think you're too dumb to know the difference.

Either way, they suck.

TN Congresswoman Is A Moron

Introducing Marsha Blackburn.

Does Cell Phone Radiation Cause Cancer?

The answer is intriguing.

The Church's Hypocrisy On Climate Change

As if hypocrisy is new to the Catholic Church.

Is Radiation Necessary For Life?

James Conca's attempt to cast doubt on the theory of LNT in the peer reviewed, scientific journal called Forbes.

When Could We First Discern Global Warming?

Depends where you looked.

Trump Is A Rump

One doesn't "believe" in global warming, one understands it or not.

"See...Global Warming Is A Hoax"

An unexpected carbon sink has been discovered.

Que the deniers.

Fukushima Robot Mapper

Thanks to Mitsubishi.

Mars Radiation Protection

In case you should find yourself there.

SARI Gets Some NYT "Exposure"

Maybe they think it's a scientific journal.

The 800 Ways Your Money Supports The Fossil Fuel Industry

Assuming you're a taxpayer.

When Did Exxon Know About Climate Change?

On NPR's On The Media with an Exxon media rep.

Anti-Vax At Last Republican Debate

Even though two of the candidates are physicians.

Republican Candidates Questioned On Climate Change

And it's not good.

How Climate Change Deniers Sound To Normal People

I Guess SARI Wasn't Good Enough!

SORRY SARI is (or was) the cult trying to convince whoever they can that radiation doesn't cause DNA damage (which leads to an increased risk of cancer).

It is (or was) a resurrection of an older group called Radiation, Health and Science.

They have petitioned the U.S. EPA, the White House, and the U.S. NRC....as if science is done by petition!

 So now they've manufactured, via Survey Monkey!, XLNT.

Well, that changes everything!  I'm really convinced now....that you're a bunch of morons.

Exxon Imitates RJ Reynolds

Doubt was their product.

Ukraine Scraps Rx Deal With Russia

Alternative partners sought.

10 Unsolved Nuclear Mysteries

??????????

It Sucks To Be A Nonhuman Primate

You get exposed to radiation so some folks can commercialize a drug.

Experts Refuse To Warn Of New Health Hazards...

Until the backlog is cleared!

Science Deniers Must Be Denied

That's why this blog exists.

And Dr. Ben Carson, the second leading Republican candidate, is a science denier.

At a time, when we're not doing enough as it is.

Using Public Lands For Fossil Fuel Extraction

Should be curbed.

Russia's Radiation Safety

Will improve as it works with the IAEA.

The Koch Brothers Exposed

A documentary from last year:

Nuclear Power To The Rescue!

From global warming.

Really President Obama?

Really?

Hey Alarmists, Radiation Is Good For You!

"These people are crazy".  Yeah, that would be the SORRY SARI petitioners, who should really change their name to POOH (Petioners Obsessed Over Hormesis):

Iran Has Plenty Of U

So they claim.

How To Handle A Radioactively Contaminated Corpse

C,mon, you're just dying to know.

Typhoon Washes Away Fukushima Waste

82 bags of it.

Beyond Nuclear Is Beyond Credible

They point out that the U.S. NRC built a building they found they didn't need.

Yeah, it's tough to plan for the future accurately, it's a lot easier to manufacture criticism.

But then to link that circumstance to not funding the nuclear plant cancer study (hey morons, they're trying to save money in part BECAUSE they built the building!!!) is absurd.

But it seems Paul Gunter is a clairvoyant....he knows there are elevated cancer rates even though the study has been cancelled!

Crowd Sourcing Radiation Detector

Pairs with smartphone.

Who Opens A Rx Next To A Volcano?

Japan.

NASA Needs Pu-238

To power its missions.

Fukushima On Vice

Here's an episode that does the standard fear mongering routine:

7 Atoms Isn't A "Trace" Amount?

Arnie Gundersen fearmongering.  At a about 8:00 he discusses the "beginning of the onslaught" of Fukushima radioactivity which was detected at a concentration of 7 Bq/m3.  He wouldn't call that concentration "trace", though any honest, objective person would.  

He goes on to discuss the massive coverup associated with some radioactive dust that he tries to push as leading to 100,000 to one million cancer cases from the accident.  He denigrates "scientists", but then highlights a study he helped fund.  One by Dr. Marco Kaltofen.  That "study" was done in partial fulfillment of his PhD degree, so he wasn't a PhD when he did it.  And what degree was he pursuing? A degree in Civil Engineering!  And who helped fund his study?  Fairewinds Energy!

Politicians Debating Global Warming

The most striking climate change sculpture you'll ever see.

Oil-Rich Kuwait Does Solar

In a big way.

Homo naledi & Homo IDiot

Bones have been discovered in South Africa which appear to belong to a newly discovered group of pre-Homo sapiens, named Homo naledi.

Meanwhile, a lawyer with the Discovery Institute, an IDiot (Intelligent Design marketer) struggles to convince whomever he can that humans didn't evolve from primate ancestors.

Manufacturing Doubt

A video, dealing primarily with global warming, but it applies to radiation, tobacco, etc.:

The Koch Brothers Song

It's funny.....but it's not funny:

Fusion News

Tokamak Energy.  An aggressive, privately funded startup company.

Versus ITER.

Versus Taylor Wilson.  The youngest person in history to work with nuclear fusion.

About Half Of Testicular Cancer Risk Is Inherited

More so than other cancer.

U.S. NRC Terminates NAS Cancer Studies

Due to costs and time.  Smart move in my opinion.

Karl Grossman Responds To SARI LNT Petition

He's an anti-nuclear activist, but thanks to SARI's petition, he has more anti-nuclear power ammo.

Chernobyl Porn

Here.

New Insight On DNA Repair

Involves the protein 53BP1.

Oh, wait a minute....the research was done at Rockefeller University....must be a conspiracy against nuclear power!

Can Towns Around Fukushima Recover?

Take Naraha for example.

Immunosuppression When Treating Skin Cancer With Radiotherapy

It can make the radiotherapy a waste of resources.

"Evolution Is A Myth"

Something you might expect to hear from some Southern, uneducated, white, red-neck.

Nope, that quote is from the number two Republican Presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson.

GW Denier Patrick Michaels Affiliated With Tobacco Denial

The Advancement of Sound Science Center.  

Isn't it ironic, that groups with names like "Sound Science" or "Accurate Radiation Information" are the ones who are unsound and inaccurate?  Did you notice that Marshall Institute founders S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz were also affiliated with this group?

Upcoming Hurricane Season To Remain Permanent!

HA!

Pu Is Unsung Concession In Iran Nuclear Deal

Described here.

A Brief History Of Global Warming

No, it didn't start with Al Gore's movie:

KI Distribution Enhancement

At Bruce Power in Canada:

The Alternative Medicine Racket

LANL Woes

Described here.

Naraha Residents Allowed To Return

After their Fukushima evacuation.

Samofar

Safety assessment of the molten salt fast reactors.

Bridgeton, MO's Mishap

Burning landfill near low level waste site has citizens concerned.

International Isotopes' Mishap

An individual exceeded his annual dose limit.

Cosmic Ray Porn

The video is analogous to the ionization tracks which occur in your cells (those ionization tracks are much smaller of course):

Hanford Site Progress In McCluskey Room

Merchants Of Doubt Documentary

Here's a bit of it:

Genetic Makeup May Make Radiation Riskier For Pediatric Patients

Not surprising that have a baseline mutation would increase the risk of radiation alone.

Ocean Acidification

Thanks to CO2 emissions.  Meanwhile, Faux Noise features a denier:

Pollution Is Not Good For You

A review of the book, "Is A Little Pollution Good For You?" by Kevin C. Elliot which focuses on the flaws of hormesis from a philosophical perspective.

I just bought the book and have started reading it.

KY Court Clerk Isn't A Martyr

She's a moron.

Coal Ash Radioactivity

Not sure why that's something new to study.

Time Lapse Photography Of DNA Damage Repair

From ionizing radiation.

Can We Learn To Live With Nuclear Technologies?

We've been doing so for decades.

RaD-X

NASA's Radiation Dosimetry Experiment.

The Myth Of A Healthy Tan

And indoor tanning (the other DeNiArs following the cigarette industry & nuclear industry).

Fukushima Related Thyroid Cancers Unlikely To Rise

Since the doses were so small.

Dumb, Christian County Clerk

Disobeying the U.S. Supreme Court.

SARI Fueling Anti-Nuclear Power Activists

The SARI petitions have gotten the attention of anti-nuclear activists, and since SARI has the science all wrong, are helping to gain support for the anti-nuclear power position.  Well done, SORRY SARI.

This video is a replay of a recent anti-nuclear podcast called Nuclear Hotseat. At about 18:50, Dr. Ian Fairlie is featured.   

Christian County Clerk Gets The Gospel

According to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rick Santorum Lies On Climate Change

Listen to what he says in this clip from last week (jump to 4:10):

57% of scientists don't agree CO2 is the driver of global warming!!!!!

What does the study's author say?

IAEA Director General Releases Fukushima Report - LNT To Blame!

HA! HA! HA! HA!

Sorry, SARI that was a joke.  Of course a scientific theory can't be blamed for an accident!

Instead, the DG wrote this:

A major factor that contributed to the accident was the widespread assumption in Japan that its nuclear power plants were so safe that an accident of this magnitude was simply unthinkable. This assumption was accepted by nuclear plant operators and was not challenged by regulators or by the Government. As a result, Japan was not sufficiently prepared for a severe nuclear accident in March 2011.

I wonder who might have taken the lead in spreading that assumption????????

Oh, we know what SARI (or should they be called Petitioners for Inaccurate Radiation Information (PIRI)?) will come up with next...the IAEA is part of the global anti-nuclear power conspiracy!

 More info available here.

This Is Climate Change

It's personal.

Exelon Considers Closing Quad Cities Plant

Due to profitability concerns.

Atomic Taradiddles Obsesses With BEAR I Lie

I won't provide a link to his pathological lying website. But it's more of the same...the Rockefeller's funding of BEAR I caused the public's irrational fear of radiation in 1956.  And for the last 60 years everyone is under a mass delusion that radiation causes cancer.  When actually we know who is deluded.

As this video shows (at 18:15), the public already had distorted views of the genetic effects of radiation in 1950.  So obviously Atomic Paradiddles is lying.

Does Irradiated Food Become Radioactive?

Of course not.

OMG!

Oceans Melting Greenland!

Cancer Whacko

He refers to himself as a "doctor"....maybe in the subject of bovine feces:

BEAR I Committee DeNiAr Attacks Are Ignorant

One of the recent attacks by DeNiArs is targeted against the BEAR I committee which published a scientific consensus report on radiation health effects for the public in 1956.

The attack goes something like this...BEAR I introduced the concept of LNT, and ever since, like automatons, the radiation protection community has just blindly followed the dogma to this day.

So, their "thinking" goes...attack BEAR I, and today's science is therefore weakened.

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

A CNN review.

President Obama Gets Global Warming

Alaska needs to get it too.

Bill Nye gets it:

An Asylum Might Just Be The Answer....

So we have a Kentucky county clerk who won't issue marriage licenses to gay couples even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was a constitutional right.

Now she is asking the Court to grant her "asylum for conscience".

In other words, she wants to legally break the law.

Ain't gonna happen.

HPS Newsletter Publicly Available

The Health Physics Society has made their monthly newsletter available for public consumption.

I read the Boice Report within it.  It is John Boice's personal take on LNT.

I felt compelled to write him an email - pertinent parts below the fold.

This DeNiAr Seems Really Out There....

Here's a link to a comment by a former NRC attorney regarding one of the SORRY SARI petitioners, Dr. Carol Marcus.  You'll have to download the PDF attachment within the link.  DR. Marcus was also formerly employed by the NRC.

SARI should really change it's acronym to PIRI....Petitioners for Inaccurate Radiation Information, since not only are they petitioning the NRC, but they petitioned the EPA and the White House before that. They don't seem to know the difference to the scientific method and petitioning.

Scientists On Extreme Weather

Radiologists Get It

Radiation risks, that is (from a few years ago):

Sweden Moving Away From Nuclear Power

I wouldn't think they have enough solar or wind to make up for the loss, but they know better than me.

The HIV/AIDS "Hypothesis"

The ultra right wing group, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, posted a bunch of videos recently (I commented on one, "Radiation Protection Superstitions", which you can find here with a bit of effort).  

A common science denial attack tactic is to call what is essentially reality (well supported, scientific theories) as "hypotheses"(intended to imply mere speculation.  Here's an MD referring to the causal relationship between HIV and AIDS as a hypothesis.

U.S. DoE To Supply Pu-238

In 2019 to NASA, if they want it.

Nuclear Fusion

We may actually get there.

Let's Hear About Cancer

From science journalist Carl Zimmer (from a couple of years ago):

And this more recent apparent breakthrough.

Hanford Vit Plant Woes

Described here.

Climate Denier Received Koch Money

Of course!

The Gospel Of Denial

I Don't Debate Creationists Or DeNiArs....

But some people do!

Thanks to an anynomous commenter for the link!

The NRC Petition Against LNT (Science) Will Fail

So a bunch of petitioners (they refer to themselves as scientists, but they aren't doing science, they're petitioning) petitioned the NRC to ignore the theory of LNT when it promulgates regulations.

Can you imagine if a another bunch of ideologues petitioned the FDA to ignore the germ theory of disease when it promulgates its regulations?

Food Irradiation

Should be embraced.

The Seabrook Nuclear Station

Is discussed here.

"You Don't Have To Be As Smart As A 5th Grader To Know That Climate Is Caused By The Sun"

Poor Katharine Hayhoe has to deal with this moron (from a few months ago, but I've just seen it):

Muon Ray Vision At Fukushima

To try to find the cores.

Intro To Cancer Biology

Inside Sellafield

A BBC documentary:

The NRC Petition On LNT

Where have I seen that before?

Sorry, SARI.  Science isn't done by petitions.

Are Hormesis & Homeopathy Linked?

Who cares?  Are naturopathy & kinesiology linked?

Who cares?

93 One Liners By Pro-Nukes

Clueless Santorum

First Republican Debate Highlights

Radiation Protection Superstitions

Thanks to Atomic Taradiddles for pointing out this video.  It's a talk given to the ultra right wing Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.  Any science that may result in more regulations is seen as a hoax by them.

Let's dig in!

Received A High Dose Of Ionizing Radiation?

We have a drug for that!

Hormesis Spreads To Russia

Looks like there is a global effort to spread nonsense.

Here's a link to the paper.

I like the part where it says the effect isn't related to dose or physiological changes.

Must be magic.

Speaking Of IARC

They've done the largest epidemiological study to date on low dose radiation.

What Does "Probably Causes Cancer" Actually Mean?

Congratulations Humanity!

July was hottest month on record.

That Concludes One Hunch

I figured Ed Calabrese was tenured which allows him the freedom to make shit stuff up under the guise of an intellectual pursuit.  Now I know I was right.

Atomic Taradiddles Continues To Peddle DeNiAl

Nothing new of course.  Adams seems to have a real bromance with the Cato Institute's Ed Calabrese.

And now he filters comments by email addresses.  That's how propaganda works....filter out facts, amplify the lies.

Radiation Leads To Supercrops!!!!!!

Really.

Speaking Of The U.K.

They are having the same sorts of political problems siting a waste depository that the U.S. has "enjoyed".

Another Response To The SARI Petitions

Here is much lengthier response to the SORRY SARI petitions to the U.S. NRC than I had written (see my post "Here We Go Again!").  I had originally considered a technical response, but decided the SORRY SARI petitions were so lacking technically, that they didn't deserve a technical response.

This response is written by Dr. Ian Fairlie from the U.K.

Scientists Misbehaving

A publisher has had to retract a few dozen papers (not the first time, either).

Jesus...That's Funny!

A Bible "museum" uses celebrity wax statues in its displays.

Where's Lucy?

With new technology, we may be able to get "diamonds from the sky"....removing atmospheric CO2 and turning it into diamonds.

Which begs the question.....where's Lucy?

The "True" Radiation Hazards In Your Environment

There are some technical errors within, but nonetheless, better than most.

The Fukushima Health Management Survey

Estimates of external radiation doses to those around Fukushima.

Preserving Genetic Integrity In Double Strand Breaks

Ionizing radiation causes double strand breaks.

Tracking Fukushima Contaminants

In the ocean.

Linking The History of Radiation Biology to the Hallmarks Of Cancer

Read away.

Japan's Pu Problem

Is described in the NYT.

Religion Is A Scam

How Safe Are Tanning Beds?

And of course, the tanning bed industry have launched PR campaigns to mislead the public.

Two Major Aquifers Contaminated With U-nat

The uranium becomes soluble and can end up in groundwater.

Science Denial Covered On C-Span

This video goes back to April, but I was "off" then.

Presidential Candidates' Views On Climate Change

It's a long article, but can be summed as Republicans are deniers and Democrats aren't.

What Is Cancer?

Here's a nice answer provided by the NCI.

Earth's Core Will Be Most Habitable Part Of Planet By 2060!

Thanks to global warming!

The Psychology of Science Denial

Another video from U of Q (see yesterday):

Chernobyl Porn

Photos of discarded vehicles.

The Difference Between Science Skepticism & Denial

From the University of Queensland, one of many parts:

Presidential Candidate, Neuro-Surgeon, & Creationist! WTF????

But at least he's of color, so he can't win:

Boosting Quinoa Production Using Nuclear Technology

Quinoa is a nutritious food which can be mutated and made more adaptable to climate change environmental challenges.

Hey, wait....I've heard climate change was a hoax!  I've read radiation doesn't cause mutations!

KA-CHING!!!

Here We Go Again!

I had taken a break from blogging because I felt I had written pretty much all I had to say on this topic.  I didn't see a need to keep repeating the same material over and over again.

I had also noticed a great reduction in the volume of science denial propaganda as the general public became more aware of the tactics.

I knew the propaganda would never vanish since there are strong forces at play to keep the public confused on scientific matters.

I've recently learned the U.S. NRC is taking comments on some petitions......