The trouble was that Beckmann was every bit as willing to engage in the lies and distortions in favor of his world view as the anti-nuclear were in favor of theirs.
It did no one any good, and I refused to be dragged down to that level in the debate.
For example, IIRC, that page of crosses were total industry deaths, not deaths per watt, which hugely exaggerated the safety difference because of the much larger reliance on coal. It was tricks like that which convinced me I could take nothing he said at face value, and convinced me the book was more of a hindrance to a balanced view than an aid.
(Lies and distortions are never valid tactics, no matter what the other side is engaged in.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-02-03 10:33 pm (UTC)It did no one any good, and I refused to be dragged down to that level in the debate.
For example, IIRC, that page of crosses were total industry deaths, not deaths per watt, which hugely exaggerated the safety difference because of the much larger reliance on coal. It was tricks like that which convinced me I could take nothing he said at face value, and convinced me the book was more of a hindrance to a balanced view than an aid.
(Lies and distortions are never valid tactics, no matter what the other side is engaged in.)