• TheBatz@sh.itjust.works
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      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

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        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.

        • Vashti@feddit.uk
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          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.

    • bouh@lemmy.world
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      Correction: capitalism has been using scientists work. Scientists are people who need to eat too. They don’t have they word to say.