What I have learned from the news over the last couple of weeks is that there is absolutely nothing to fear from any radiation. At all. Everything is good. Always.Seriously, the sloppiness and credulity of the reporting has been astounding. At most, you would think they would report that there is no evidence that radiation at the levels being reported is dangerous - if that's even true (which seems unlikely to me). But no, instead we have the unskeptical reporting that everything is "safe." As Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out in The Black Swan, "Contrary to popular wisdom, our body of knowledge does not increase from a series of confirmatory observations." That is, you cannot know something for sure through verification, only through negative instances. But not if you ask our media, not if you ask our officials. Everything is safe.
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