Radiation, Chernobyl And The `Scientific´ Mumbo-Jumbo Inexorably Attached To It
(WorldNews Environment)

DON’T MISS ANYTHING! ONE CLICK TO GET NEW MATILDA DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX, FREE! Amid growing calls for a debate about the use of nuclear energy in Australia, a recent smash-hit show on HBO, Chernobyl, has put nuclear power - and the risks associated with it – squarely back in the minds of Australians. Not to mention the usual slew pile of mis-information, writes Geoff Russell. Everybody watching a `docu-drama´ understands that historical accuracy requires that the characters reflect whatever mumbo-jumbo beliefs were in vogue at the time. By way of example, everybody living through the black death had wrong ideas about its cause. Likewise, torturers during the Spanish...