Nuclear radiation, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of denial - The Ecologist

The torture imposed on logic, reason and observational data by the advocates of nuclear power has now reached the level of clinical psychosis - a thought disorder in which reality testing is grossly impaired.

As the evidence of the extreme harm to health inflicted by nuclear radiation mounts, the denialists are resorting to ever greater extremes, writes Chris Busby. On the one hand, advancing the absurd claim that ionising radition is not merely harmless, but health-enhancing. On the other, closing down the experiment that would have provided the strongest evidence yet...

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