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Psychology professor on Trump's common refrain:

Why 'I was just being sarcastic' can be such a convenient excuse

 

In light of the evidence of post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer, researchers mounted a major effort to screen children in the area around Fukushima. Year after year, the numbers steadily ratcheted up, eventually reaching twenty times normal levels. (As with thyroid cancer in Belarus, officials from UN agencies claimed the rise in cases was merely the result of intensified screening.) Meanwhile, local authorities began a campaign to discourage children from getting screened, advising them of “the right not to know.” The campaign had some success, and the number of participating children dropped. Not coincidentally, from 2016 on, the number of reported child thyroid cases started to decline.


“The right not to know” about the effects of nuclear power is currently embraced far beyond Fukushima. In the face of escalating alarm about climate change, the siren song of “clean and affordable and reliable” power finds an audience eager to overlook a business model that is dependent on state support and often greased with corruption; failed experiments now hailed as “innovative”; a pattern of artful disinformation; and a trail of poison from accidents and leaks (not to mention the 95,000 tons of radioactive waste currently stored at reactor sites with nowhere to go) that will affect generations yet unborn. Arguments by proponents of renewables that wind, solar, and geothermal power can fill the gap on their own have found little traction with policymakers. Ignoring history, we may be condemned to repeat it. Bill Gates has bet a billion dollars on that.

 

Trump Is Making the Midterms a Referendum on Himself

 

She’s also vaccinated (I’m assuming boosted as well), and it appears lunch was outside. So, I don’t see what the BFD is.

 

You plop the Founding Fathers in America today, and they'll be in awe (98% very positive awe).

 

We know one for sure agrees with mandatory vaccination.

George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation (John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress)

 

And apologies because I'm a terrible person, but whenever I see Madison Cawthorn, I think of this guy:

 

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Easily so, and that's clearing a very high bar.