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Skeptoid #459: Listener Feedback: The Environment

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Brian responds to listener feedback on past episodes about environmental topics.

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0:00.0

It's time to go back to our mail bag and answer some more feedback sent in by listeners.

0:08.5

Today we've got some questions challenging the conclusions in a few episodes that

0:12.6

dealt with environmental matters.

0:14.8

We're going to respond to some questions about environmental plutonium, about the mythical

0:20.5

wind turbine syndrome, and even fracking, plus lots more.

0:26.7

And that's coming right up on Skeptoid.

0:34.6

You're listening to Skeptoid.

0:36.1

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

0:39.7

Listener feedback, the environment.

0:43.4

Few topics generate as much passionate feedback as those dealing with environmental issues.

0:49.5

This may be because so many environmentally issues are so politically charged.

0:54.5

If I say solar power is better than coal, I get accolades from the left and vitriol

1:00.1

from the right.

1:01.6

If I say nuclear energy is better than coal, I get accolades from the right and vitriol

1:06.5

from the left.

1:08.2

This is why I long ago gave up trying to please any particular segment of the audience.

1:12.8

I just call it as I see it.

1:15.1

Sometimes this works out well, and sometimes it doesn't.

1:19.3

The feedback I'm going to answer today comes from both camps.

1:24.5

My episode comparing the Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3 mile island disasters brought out the

1:30.0

expected competing camps, the pro-NUX and the anti-NUX.

1:34.6

There was also a considerable amount of good information about radioactivity in the comments,

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