It's a scientific unknown, in terms of what will happen, and the scientific impacts from what has already happened.  Radiation is just contaminated particles of matter.  Depending on how these particles of matter distribute themselves throughout the cryosphere is a major uncertainty.

Agreed Jehanne, and it's why I shook my head in disbelief when I saw an alarmist radiation chart posted here.  

Agreed Jehanne, and it's why I shook my head in disbelief when I saw an alarmist radiation chart posted here.  

The mistake of an individual is not that of the collective.

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Agreed Jehanne, and it's why I shook my head in disbelief when I saw an alarmist radiation chart posted here.  

The mistake of an individual is not that of the collective.

The map in question was only on this board for less than 2 hours, before the fraud was noted (by me.)

Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?
 

We got duped, I admit that.  The chart looked completely authentic, until I went out to the website of the company whose logo was on the chart.  We did not, however, get duped for very long.

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The map in question was only on this board for less than 2 hours, before the fraud was noted (by me.)

Great stuff, well done.

Will you have the courage to take on all the other stuff that will make you unpopular though ?

You know, the contrail conspiracists, the anti-vaccine lobby, paleo-astronomy run amok and the list goes on around the corner.

I can definitively speak to the "anti-vaccine lobby," because I worked for 14 years in Statistical Process Control.  Are vaccines safe?  Well, it depends on what one means by "safe"?  In statistics, this is referred to as Beta, that is, that the null hypothesis for a given experiment (in this case, the safety of vaccines -- no one is, of course, arguing about their efficacy) being true.  It is, of course, "impossible to prove a negative" (in general, at least), that is, that some drug will not cause an adverse effect for any given individual.

This is why some drugs are prescription, while others are "over the counter."  Drugs that are prescription-only have been demonstrated to have efficacy, that is, they have scientific and statistical evidence demonstrating their usefulness in fighting human disease and illness.  However, due to their small sample size and potential side-effects, such drugs have been deemed by the health authorities not to be safe for the general population to use at an individual's discretion.

One need only look at the drug Vioxx to see how a drug, which no one disputes as to its efficacy, turned out to be very dangerous when used by a large segment of the population, due, entirely, to Big Pharma's desire to make as much money as possible.

With vaccines, they do have efficacy, but for even the smallest subsets of the population, they may involve substantial, even if unknown, risks.  As with any drug, it is a question of "informed consent," which means that you, as individual or as a parent of a child, have the right to decide whether or not you want to take that risk with yourself or with your own child.