▲ 60 ▼ Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com) submitted 3 years ago by abc@lemmus.org to c/worldnews@sh.itjust.works 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments Mirror: https://archive.ph/rvXQA
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 years ago (2 children) Because Capitalists have been using scientists to push their agenda for almost a century now this is an article about the oil and tobacco industries using the same scientists.. If you google scientists supporting fossil fuels you can find way too many other examples as well. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheBatz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Correction: capitalism has been using scientists work. Scientists are people who need to eat too. They don't have they word to say. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheBatz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vashti@feddit.uk 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Correction: capitalism has been using scientists work. Scientists are people who need to eat too. They don't have they word to say. permalink fedilink source parent