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Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed
HeavensBlade23 sends in an article from the German site Spiegel Online about mounting evidence that nuclear radiation may not be as deadly as has been widely believed. The article cites studies by German, US, and Japanese researchers concluding, for example, that fewer than 800 deaths are attributable to the after-effects of radiation in over 86,500 survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. Other surprisingly low death rates are reported in studies of Chernobyl and of a secret Siberian town called Mayak, devoted to producing plutonium, that was abandoned after a nuclear accident in 1957.
"Radiation is not so bad for you!"
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Luckily, its informational value doesn't depend on whether or not it makes you with your theistic system of morality sick. I believe the question it was addressing was whether radiation is as dangerous as it was thought to be. The death rates resulting from exposure is absolutely an important factor to consider. Its certainly (and this may have been where you began before you went off on your irrelevant tangent) not the only factor to consider, but it is definitely an important one.
Point taken. The appearance of impropriety is often more harmful than impropriety itself. I've borrowed a page from Dick Cheney's handbook and altered reality retroactively. Oh, and I'm having the Secret Service assassinate anyone who modded me "troll".
-OP
Was 9/11 tragic? Yes. Should the perpetrators be brought to justice? Yes?
And is the best way to do so by effectively blowing up two countries and directly or indirectly causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians? Not to mention the military casualties on both sides?
If you want to prove that you care about "human life", then talk to me about those deaths.
"...and how best to bend facts for your propaganda purposes..."
Given the above, if I were you I think I'd remember that saying about people who live in glass houses...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.