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Children and Radio

  • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    You’re correct that it has been overblown in the past. That does not invalidate what is occurring, doubly so since we have scientific proof now.

    You are equating “Old man yells at cloud” to “hundreds of nuclear scientists says cloud of radioactive gas is harmful and here are dozens of papers proving it.”

    They are not the same thing.