Any reason to run her yap is OK with Annie. So, I agree with Bill. I will now have to commit Harakiri.
Any reason to run her yap is OK with Annie. So, I agree with Bill. I will now have to commit Harakiri.
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I’m not a particular fan of AC, but she brought up something that has been known for years in the industry. Radiation treatment is just one aspect of this theory.
Unfortunately, O is right as well — if you tell people a little is good for you, the morans will think more of it is even better.
Practically all of the survivors from the Hiroshima atomic bomb (which was a very small bomb by modern standards) developed cancer in their lives. Almost all eventually died from their cancer-related illnesses. This is an indisputable fact. Source: Interview with Charles Pellegrino, author: The Last Train From Hiroshima
What Ms. Coulter is doing is taking a statistic and unscientifically applying to all cases. This is reckless and irresponsible on many levels.
Depends on how you define “survivor”. My Grandfather survived Hiroshima and didn’t get cancer – admittedly he was in London at the time of the bombing which helped.
So what you are saying is that people close enough to an atomic bomb to receive a lethal doze of radiation died of it?
Good grief…. She just needs to stop talking when cameras are on…
She is “right” insofar as the base statement that all radiation is bad. That is just crap. But holy crap, the average person out there has NOT ONE CLUE as to how radiation even works, let alone how that lets nuke reactors operate without EXPLODING. And they TOTALLY do not understand how a nuke weapon works!!!
There are loads of forms of radiation out there. Some are bad for us, some only for the bad things IN us and some for EVERYTHING. The radiation from a reactor core breach is bad for EVERYTHING. HOWEVER, it has to be is serious quantity.
Man….
All that comes to mind is that line from MiB: Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Oh, come on you Lefties!
You know you want her…
(BTW, does this mean the naked body scanners are good for you??)
#2 a clear example of what #1 feared. Minor exposure may be as safe as life gets but as soon as you say it some twit immediately compares it to being near ground zero when an atomic bomb goes off.
No body with working brain who as looked at the facts claims that level of exposure is safe. They stopped open air testing of Nuclear weapons for a reason. It is extremely likely that some of the guys working in and near the nuclear power plants now melting down will die because of it.
This should not be taken to mean that anyone in the 50 states should flitter their undies and run in circles screaming. We aren’t going to be exposed to anything near that amount of radiation.
#5 “Oh, come on you Lefties!
You know you want her…”
#4: Yes, we want Coulter to STFU, more than anything else (she comes across as a know nothing right winger).
I’m a moderate, but am far more tolerant of Repubs that actually have their facts together (the late William F Buckley being a classic example).
What I don’t like are Wingnuts of any persuasion, including the Libertarians, overzealous Liberals, and Tea Partiers.
I’m humored by her air of certainty while spouting complete bullshit.
On the other hand, I think her fans should follow her advice and seek out additional radiation. How could she possibly be wrong?
O’Reilly doesn’t believe a word of what Coulter is saying, which makes him a pinhead.
Coulter is absolutely correct. The government’s official position is based upon the zero-dose response curve, which falsely states that your risk of cancer increases as with increasing radiation exposure — meaning that there is no such thing as a safe dose of radiation exposure. The government’s “safe” dose was just an arbitrarily chosen low value.
The correct dose-response curve shows a decrease in your risk of cancer as you become exposed to low doses of radiation. However, you eventually reach a dose threshold where the risk of cancer begins to increase as the radiation dose increases.
The ‘growing body of evidence’ has been in existence for twenty years: small doses of radiation actually increases your body’s immune system. But the key word here is small.
Ann is an idiot yahoo, riding her tsunami mouth diarrhea as far as it takes her, on any subject.
She is part of the real problem. Basic journalistic irresponsibility, bias, and agenda driven.
“On the other hand, I think her fans should follow her advice and seek out additional radiation. How could she possibly be wrong?”
HA!
I just like to watch his/her Adam’s apple bobbing.
Lets resume open air nuclear bomb tests and set one off over Ann Coulter’s house.
God, what a stupid cunt.
# 7 – you prefer CIA spooks over libertarians, figures.
in #10, Smith said: The government’s “safe” dose was just an arbitrarily chosen low value.
No it wasn’t.
There is a background dose of radiation, just like there is a 3°K background radiation everywhere in the universe, and the value chosen was set according to the dosage received at a particular location at a particular time (and we should be glad that there were no sources of ionizing radiation nearby at the time.)
The value is not an arbitrarily chosen low value.
Ann Coulter…he definitely sounds assured of what he says. I think his fans are the best candidates to test his theory.
Please, please, please send her over there to the nuclear reactor in Japan! We should all chip in and give her a one-way ticket to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant so she can prove her point.
i was discussing this video earlier. i do not know how mr O capares radiation to 9/11, but ok.
either way, we should just get the data from the news. the amount of radiation, the spread of it, and it should all be plotted on a map. we should not have to be fed their opinions as well.
Who watched the video??? Bill O’Reily thought she was crazy. Do we even need to discuss this after that???
She was whoring the same story around on the radio last night, and that right wing nutbag radio show host called her crazy.
Is this even worthy of discussion???
Also…
No. Im not into trannies, either pre or post op.
#16 – that’s still arbitrary. Do you find somewhere with a very low background and say people live to 79years then find somewhere on granite with a higher dose and see how long people there live – and scale from that?
Instead you pick a nice round number of milliseiverts that is high enough above the background that you don’t have to evacuate Ontario and arbitrarily 1/10 what you allow for radiation workers
I love how you lefties just HATE smart women.
When Bill Maher was asked how he could be friends with Ann Coulter considering her outspoken conservative comments, he replied “Well she doesn’t sound like that when she’s coming”.
If by “smart” you mean ignorant, venom spewing, propagandizing attention hounds, then yes we don’t appreciate that.
#16 — That is the “rationale” they used in setting the number, but it wasn’t based upon actual science; hence, the value is arbitrary.
Smith,
You are a douchbag.
You are playing statistics as if they make a hard line in the sand. You know you’re being a douch, trying to trick people.
I agree that Ann Coulter is not a real right-winger. She’s too soft on hate.
#19,
Yup, O’s comparison with 9/11 was basically apples and oranges. How is he going to compare radiation to dust/chemicals/debris? Didn’t make any sense at all.
There’s two issues in the video.
1 – How much radiation is good for you. There’s probably a fine line between enough radiation that’s good for you, and enough radiation to kill you. In this case, AC would not be wrong.
2 – Should this finding be publicized to the general public. Well that can be debated since we have many idiots in the world.
So meh.
1873 Colt said,
“I love how you lefties just HATE smart women.”
That’s why I LOVE Sarah P, Ann C, Michelle B and Clarence’s wife.
In fact I plan to support any of them vigorously if they run in 2012. I support creationism in public schools.
Why? Because my kids currently go to one of the top secular science schools in the country & will need people to work like slaves for them. Heck you’ll get half days off on Sunday for church. It’ll buck you all up for the next 100 hour work.
I suggest all you god fearing folks brush up on old slave songs – I hear it keeps the spirit up when your working you asses off. Remember its not electricity it jesus juice.
LOL