Posted on 01/23/2006 10:14:26 AM PST by rellimpank
Nobody likes to be "had," but that is precisely what has happened to the American public with the documentary Chernobyl Heart. Since winning the Academy Award for "Best Short Documentary" in February 2003, it has received international accolades, has been uncritically quoted in major newspapers, and is being recommended for America's classrooms on the National Education Association's website. HBO has run it continuously since September 2004. Yet while presented as a documentary on the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it relies to a shocking extent on scientifically unsupportable claims and in some cases outright falsehoods.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Making a story to open the check books. It is a good cause but stop the liberal lies to take money from people.
Hmmm, who to believe? Leftist anti-nuke activist or "Paul Lorenzini ... a nuclear engineer and former general manager of operations at the Department of Energy's nuclear facilities in Hanford, Washington."
For the leftists the answer is clear: believe the one with no expertise in the matter as long as leftist views are supported.
Great post! Thanks
I'm betting it takes only ten posts before someone puts up a link to the debunked story of a motorcycle ride through Chernobyl.
Michael Criton also debunks the Chernoble nonsense in his latest book.
If it ain't sensational, it ain't news.
Never heard of the movie but last night as I was changing the channel I passed by West Wing which I have never seen so I paused for a second. Seems Sheen was on air force 1 and he was having an argument with Alan Alda who I would guess by the way they were arguing plays a conservative (go figure) and Sheen was screaming about the evils of nuclear energy. So I figured basewd on my 20 second view of the show the left must be gearing up their anti-nuke energy base for some reason. I figure that it will start to be an issue in more and more TV shows and movies since that's one of their main channels of propaganda.
Don't worry West Wing is cancelled after May.
Gone to Old TV show graveyard.
Regarding chernobyl. There's a really insteresting web log that I read on the web a whil ago, but can't find it again. It's the personal chrinicales of thie young russions woman who rides a sport bike (motorchcyle) and tours the affected ghost town area.. with a dosimeter.. and takes pictures and measurements... not for any poitical agenda just I guess for her own reasons, but created a really interested photo journal of it. I wish I could find it again. Anyone know what I am talking about or can point me in the right directions? (As I recall she was kinda hot, too)
--Sheen hasn't done it for a while, but he shows up fairly regularly to get arrested in the Yucca Mountain, Nevada nuke storage facility "protests"--
Exposure damage to radiation is additive over your life. Basically you want to avoid it whenever possible.
It was awful what happened at Chernobyl. But we gotta remember, the technology being used at the plant was old and faulty. One could easily expect that new plants would be quite a bit safer.
Apparently everything sbout the story was real except the motorcycle part. She actually went by car into the area, but sexed it up with saying she rode a motorcycle. Still interesting.
I've read that same website from the woman on the motorcycle, I'll see if I can find it for you.
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Remember too, that many birth defects in the countries of the former Soviet Union are linked to chemical contamination completely apart from nuclear research/accidents/waste.
As a blanket statement, this is incorrect.
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