Unifying Contradiction

I did push literature on you back in about 1989 ("The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear", by Petr Beckmann) that made that point. A few years before that, my fourth-year Ethics class was taught by a very left-wing, anti-nuclear professor (I used to argue with him vociferously after classes, and I also lent Beckmann's book to him -- he had in a previous year made a very rabid antinuclear public talk, repeating the large quantities of (incorrect) superstitions that exist on the subject). I put up my hand in class and related the story of a young German man who stopped eating meat due to concern over health risks. Then he stopped eating grains and produce because of concerns over risks due to pesticides. He ended up starving to death. The class (of engineers) laughed and the prof looked pissed-off (chagrined). Here lies a pseudo-scientist! Finally at zero risk!