File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9710, message 520


From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: Living Marxism: A little radiation never killed anybody
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 14:05:52 -0600 (CST)


 He
> >points out that radiation due to nuclear power in all its forms adds less
> >than one per cent to the total exposure experienced by the average person.

This has been the favorite argument of nutcases for 50 years. The point
is that the *unavoidable* ("natural") radiation is so great, so near
to the level that would make animal and plant life impossible, that
adding far less than 1% to it could be extremely dangerous.

The first nutcase use I encountered of this sort of argument was
someone who announced that since carrots had more than the amount
of mercury which would be allowed in manufactured food products,
we should eliminate controls on the mercury level of such products.
This was back around 1973 or so.

Carrol


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