[palmer]

We have some idiots pushing that crap here too.

[newzjunkey]

On FR we had west coast chicken littles downing their potassium iodide doses over the weekend. The "Radiation fears" are induced by the media hype machine and an abysmal education system in this country.

I saw a story about the Surgeon General suggestion stocking up on potassium iodide while in she was in SF yesterday. While it was with an eye to being "prepared" and not specific to the Japanese situation, the news ran it with their full-throated PANIC.