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The biggest issue with these topics is the lack of trust toward the scientists, or even forgetting that there are any scientists working on the project. It's not as if the prime minister woke up to the idea of dumping nuclear waste into the ocean
Because Capitalists have been using scientists to push their agenda for almost a century now this is an article about the oil and tobacco industries using the same scientists.. If you google scientists supporting fossil fuels you can find way too many other examples as well.
That's a fair argument. Although I am against making a generalization, especially since the IAEA who greenlighted the operations seems to be fairly independent
Oh, I don't assume that they didn't do their diligence. I am just explaining why people wouldn't automatically trust things solely because they have the title "scientist", even it is a group of them.
The thing is that TEPCO and the Japanese government had such a conspiracy of silence going on, and such an insistence that their implementation of nuclear power was safe, that nobody believes a word they say - nor should they.
Myself, I think the release is probably safe. But I'm not an expert, and I'm not really qualified to read scientific studies (which is an important thing to know about yourself), and I wasn't lied to by the people now telling me this is totes harmless about how Fukushima was totes harmless until oh, it wasn't.
Shit's complicated.
Correction: capitalism has been using scientists work. Scientists are people who need to eat too. They don't have they word to say.