10-07-2016, 03:04 PM
quote:There's a lot of hysteria about a lot of things - it's like some people are getting a dose of paranoia with their cheerios every morning.
Originally posted by PaulW
It's like putting a drop of arsenic into a lake. It's all about the dose.
Too many people think any radioactivity is dangerous. It isn't. There is a lot of hysteria about that.
Chill people, you're gonna die - but the likelihood that you're gonna die from technology today is a damn-sight lower in any given year than it was 100 years ago that you were gonna die from lack of technology ...
And to carry this rant to its logical conclusion, you're far more likely to die from lifestyle choices that you make than you are from any incidental or accidental exposure to chemical or radiological contaminants (http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/news/c...p-5-causes).