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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by abc@lemmus.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years and years of fear mongering without any decent explanation on why it's not that big of a deal.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can we stop that BS finally?

There are explanations after explanations given by professionals and officials. The only problem is that these very explanations are ignored by the media and activists.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant explanation by the mainstream media to the general public, it is severely lacking and it's probably on purpose.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yes, sorry.

I guess it's easy for them to complain forever. They can forever say it's not enough, and that appeals to the ignorants.

In the same manner, Japanese media fail women by fearmongering on cancer vaccines. It's very much like the US right wing media echo-chamber the Clintons and Hunter Biden.

[–] harbinger@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh that's interesting... do you have examples of the Japanese media doing that? I've never heard that before.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for asking. The problem is so severe there's a scholarly article on that:

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7097-2

[–] harbinger@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow... it's really upsetting that a vaccine that can literally cure cancer is cast in such a light.

Thanks for sharing!