Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For Yo

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Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For Yo

Post by sandinista » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:03 pm

ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You
Last night, Ann Coulter came on to The O'Reilly Factor and said this:

"There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer."

Yes, you read that correctly. According to Ann Coulter, radiation is actually the cure for cancer, and, no, she was not talking about chemo levels of radiation. She meant living in the shadow of Chernobyl.

Coulter cited a number of articles from, of all places, The New York Times to prove her point, and then took the media to task for not reporting on this “because a, it's not sensationalistic to say, 'oh, humans are going to have two heads' and b, it's antinuclear power."

O'Reilly, in response to this nonsense, jokingly said "we should all be heading for the nuclear reactor leaking and kind of sunbathing," to which Coulter actually agreed!

At that point O'Reilly became serious, and told his audience "to be very cautious about all this," as if after listening to Coulter, viewers at home were going to go rub themselves down with uranium. O'Reilly:

"You have to be responsible in a sense that the prevailing wisdom is there is a level of radiation that's going to hurt you and perhaps kill you. All you have to do is look at what happened here in New York City on 9/11. The people exposed just to the debris coming from the collapsed towers are having a myriad of health problems. All right? Health problems all day long. And there's is variety of them. So you have to err on the side of caution. What you say may be true. There may be some doses of radiation in the human body can ward off infection. But in something like this, you have to get the folks out of there and you have to report worse case scenarios. You have to."
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:10 pm

No, seriously, you should try this stuff. Please.

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Post by Mishakal » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:53 am

Great, I'll start planning my vacation to Chernobyl right away, imagine the kind of spa treatments you can get there with the radioactive remains... :)
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Post by surreptitious57 » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:37 am

Stop worrying. Chances are, you won't die from radiation :
Anyone who is obese could have a heart attack without warning.
Anyone who is a heavy smoker stands a reasonable chance of contracting lung cancer.
Anyone who is a heavy drinker stands an equally reasonable chance of contracting cirrhosis.
Anyone who regularly has unprotected intercourse could end up with a sexually transmitted disease including AIDS.
Most of us have an appendix, which could kill us if it burst unexpectedly and we weren't immediatedly hospitalised.
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Post by Robert_S » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:54 am

How can I tell the big green smash things radiation from the creepy spider radiation?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Post by JimC » Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:04 am

Every year, I have fun with a practical which measures radiation (I do it up the front of the room)

We have a geiger counter, several sources sealed in lttle plastic disks, and a box of mineral samples containing Uranium etc.

The counter roars for some of them! Many hundreds of counts per second.

The lads love it, and I'm not going to father any more children anyway...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:21 pm

JimC wrote:Every year, I have fun with a practical which measures radiation (I do it up the front of the room)

We have a geiger counter, several sources sealed in lttle plastic disks, and a box of mineral samples containing Uranium etc.

The counter roars for some of them! Many hundreds of counts per second.

The lads love it, and I'm not going to father any more children anyway...
No normal ones, anyway. :coffee:
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Post by egbert » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:41 pm

sandinista wrote:ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You
Somebody send the poor girl a kilo of plutonium dust.
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Post by egbert » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:43 pm

surreptitious57 wrote:Stop worrying. Chances are, you won't die from radiation :
Anyone who is obese could have a heart attack without warning.
Anyone who is a heavy smoker stands a reasonable chance of contracting lung cancer.
Anyone who is a heavy drinker stands an equally reasonable chance of contracting cirrhosis.
Anyone who regularly has unprotected intercourse could end up with a sexually transmitted disease including AIDS.
Most of us have an appendix, which could kill us if it burst unexpectedly and we weren't immediatedly hospitalised.
And then there's those sleepy bus drivers...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:46 pm

egbert wrote:
surreptitious57 wrote:Stop worrying. Chances are, you won't die from radiation :
Anyone who is obese could have a heart attack without warning.
Anyone who is a heavy smoker stands a reasonable chance of contracting lung cancer.
Anyone who is a heavy drinker stands an equally reasonable chance of contracting cirrhosis.
Anyone who regularly has unprotected intercourse could end up with a sexually transmitted disease including AIDS.
Most of us have an appendix, which could kill us if it burst unexpectedly and we weren't immediatedly hospitalised.
And then there's those sleepy bus drivers...
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Re: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD Fo

Post by maiforpeace » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:47 pm

egbert wrote:
sandinista wrote:ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You
Somebody send the poor girl a kilo of plutonium dust.
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Post by Rum » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:50 pm

You haven't seen pics of me since my visit to Sellafield and that minor 'incident' I don't think. Radiation is safe - I am living proof!

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Post by Dries van Tonder » Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:56 pm

Anyone who is obese could have a heart attack without warning.
Anyone who is a heavy smoker stands a reasonable chance of contracting lung cancer.
Anyone who is a heavy drinker stands an equally reasonable chance of contracting cirrhosis.
Most of us have an appendix, which could kill us if it burst unexpectedly and we weren't immediatedly hospitalised.
Holy shit!!!!!! Does that mean I'm going to die? :react: :react: :react: :react:
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Post by Eriku » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:04 pm

Having been to Belarus, which suffered the biggest consequences in terms of health effects after Chernobyl, I am curious as to how Mr Coulter would explain the fact that things like pancreatic cancer and other such diseases popping up in poor children across the areas that are the most exposed?

Something's up, and if it ain't the radiation amounts then I wonder what she'd have us believe.

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Post by Rum » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:38 pm

Dries van Tonder wrote:
Anyone who is obese could have a heart attack without warning.
Anyone who is a heavy smoker stands a reasonable chance of contracting lung cancer.
Anyone who is a heavy drinker stands an equally reasonable chance of contracting cirrhosis.
Most of us have an appendix, which could kill us if it burst unexpectedly and we weren't immediatedly hospitalised.
Holy shit!!!!!! Does that mean I'm going to die? :react: :react: :react: :react:
Several times I suspect. :coffee:

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