WHO: Japan Nuclear Radiation Is Localized; Not a Threat to Human Health
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 10:06 PM
The World Health Organization tonight announced that the radiation spread in Japan is localized and not harmful to human health.
Via Reuters:
Meanwhile, a top expert on radiation says that fear of radiation is a bigger health threat than radiation itself.
Technorati.com reported:
A top expert on radiation, doing studies for the World Health Organization, reports that fear of radiation exposure has caused more health problems than the radiation itself. Other experts on psychological effects of radiation agree. In addition to the fear of the effects of the radiation, survivors are stigmatized by their society, increasing stress and feelings of isolation. This stigmatization can interfere with the survivors getting proper health care, jobs, and economic stability. Others turn away from them, fearing that association with those who have been exposed to radiation can be “catching.” Experts who have studied these impacts at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, say that the fear and stigmatization causes so much stress in the people affected that, overall, the stress is more damaging to health than the radiation itself.
Someone needs to forward this to Shepard Smith on FOX who has been fear-mongering all week.
More… Books, Bikes and Broomsticks added this, via Instapundit:
Remember back in ’50s and early ’60s, when we set off something like 900 atomic bombs in Nevada? And how we just let the fallout blow wherever and it landed all over the eastern US? And how it wiped out life as we know it and all that was left from Colorado to the Atlantic were six-legged rats battling two-headed cockroaches in the glowing ruins?
Yeah. Exactly. So shut up with the panic already.
(And Lester Holt of Today? Stop being such a big girl’s blouse.)
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Published February 22, 2012 at 4:19 pm - 32 Comments
Joanne commented:
Better safe than sorry….get the h*ll out.
donh commented:
You are going to trust your life to a Chinese WHO Bureaucrat ? When is Sheppard Smith going to phone his broadcast from inside a hazmat suit ? http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_394/12410934093XyeAq.jpg
BetterDeadthanRed commented:
Well, we will know for sure when the cancer and birth defects show up. My money says they are all lying, too much money involved not to.
Mike O commented:
Anything passed 30 miles from the site, the radiation is all under a Banana Equivalent Dose
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose)
Also, read the 20-year report on Chernobyl. What they DON’T talk about is the area around Chernobyl is now FULL of wildlife A veritable nature preserve.
http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2011/03/17/putting_chernobyl_in_perspective_106233.html
Opaobie commented:
Shepard Smith would need a window in his belly to be able to see anything but the inside of his colon.
Even with the shortcomings in the GE design, the danger is being hyped beyond reason SOLELY for the purpose of increasing the ratings of the “news” shows. Based on credible reports from the scene and the fact that the main containment vessels are intact and being cooled, the threat to the rest of the world appears to be abating. Keep in mind that above ground nuclear explosions over Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II didn’t create world-wide health hazards, so small leaks of quickly-decaying by-products carried into the air by steam from the spent fuel pools are pretty much harmless before they reach the nearest populated spot in Japan, let alone thousands of miles away in Hawaii or further East. Shepard Smith is in more danger of falling off a barstool than being exposed to radiation from Japan.
Valerie commented:
Remember Shep during Katrina? He does get wound up.
winston commented:
Shep Smith of Fox News is a Liberal turd sensationalist moron. Who cares what he says…
Conservative On Fire! commented:
That Shep, I outta
. Sometimes I feel like he’s going to blurt out “that so called budget bill”, Jerk!
Guy in Ohio commented:
Fox News has totally lost me. I’m not surprised, considering the owner. When will a true conservative bring a real news network to market?
Justine commented:
Good idea, Guy in Ohio #9. Maybe the Koch Brothers could start a network. I’d surely support it…
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TheTriGuy commented:
Valerie you are so on target. Remember he was one of the so-called media types who were saying that 1000 people a day were dying in New Orleans. He may have, but I don’t ever remember him apologizing for that obviously incorrect information. It seems he hasn’t learned his lesson.
As for this hype, that’s what it is. Look who as more to gain from having a meltdown: those on the left who don’t want nuclear energy. Now look at who’s hyping it: the mainstream media who basically do anything the left tells them to do. Both of those factors should start to make people scratch their heads.
That doesn’t mean that this is not a problem. It is. But it’s not the end of the world as some would have us believe.
burt commented:
Show the Chinese proper respect. After all, they own this country.
MARY commented:
My main thought through all of this: Didn’t we drop two atomic BOMBS on Hiroshima and Nagasaki not too terribly long ago? Did everyone in the United States get all hysterical about radiation and fallout THEN? Japan is on the other side of the planet for goodness sake!
Did someone manage to magically MOVE Japan a lot closer to us geographically or something???
Let yourselves get all tangled in your panty hose about radiation threats… there’s just simply no cure for stupid.
topofthechain commented:
It’s Books, Bikes, and B-O-O-M-STICKS. Tam does Snark like a virtuoso plays a violin.