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NNadir

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2. Nothing really. I have found over many years of dealing...
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:33 AM
Yesterday

...with the scientific illiteracy of antinukes that they repeat insipid slogans which in their limited imagination they regard as wit.

They are far from wit.

The "what could go wrong?" junk slogan obviates the ethically vapidity of their ignorance and rather obviates their appalling indifference to what is going wrong with dangerous fossil fuels, the destruction of the planetary atmosphere from fossil fuel waste being only one example.

The paranoia and scientific illiteracy of the antinuke cults has left the entire planet in flames. To my mind, this morbid indifference to even a fragment of this vast planetary scale tragedy is appalling.

For the entire history of life on Earth, the atmosphere has been strongly irradiated. Regrettably, owing to the Maxwell-Boltzman distribution many anthropogenic pollutants, notably fluorinated and other halogenated gases tend to concentrate, owing to their high molecular weight relative to nitrogen and oxygen, near the Earth's surface rather than in the stratosphere and ionosphere, and thus low level irradiation in the troposphere can help to eliminate them more quickly than irradiation in the upper regions of the atmosphere.

There is almost no evidence in my experience that antinukes have ever opened a science book related to the physical chemistry of radiation, and yet they feel compelled to mutter nonsense in opposition to subjects about which they clearly know absolutely nothing.

To my mind this obviates an analogy to that dangerous fool Robert F. Kennedy muttering about vaccines. In many ways, antinukes are far more dangerous since dangerous fossil fuel waste, aka "air pollution," has killed far more people than the diseases that fool causes by his ignorance of vaccines.

The rise of antiscience rhetoric, of which antinukism is only one incarnation, has lead the world to a precipe from which an irretreivable fall is increasingly likely. It is tragic, almost unbelievably so.

History will not forgive us nor should it.

Have a nice day.

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