There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'
I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.
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