Published: December 5th, 2011 at 10:47 am ET
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IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET :: A Weekly Radio Program with Dr. Helen Caldicott, December 2, 2011:
This week’s guest is Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina.
For the past 12 years, Dr. Mousseau and his colleagues have been studying the ecological impacts of the Chernobyl disaster on wild plant and animal populations living in the so-called zone of alienation surrounding the destroyed nuclear power plant. [...]
Watch the BBC interview with Mousseau. In this interview, Dr. Mousseau discusses his research team’s continued findings of major abnormalities in birds and other wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the effects of radiation on genes, and the prognosis for human, animal and plant life in the areas affected by the Fukushima disaster. [...]
- In contaminated areas there were a much greater frequency of visible mutations
- Abnormalities include: deformed feet, tumors in abdomen, tumors around eyes, tumors on chin, deformed skin, missing digits on feet… a wide variety of developmental abnormalities
- Most of these have not been seen in any other population in the world
- These kind of abnormalities just do not occur with any frequency in other populations where there is no radioactive contaminants
Wikipedia: Dr. Caldicott hosts a weekly radio program called If You Love This Planet, which debuted in July 2008. The program was first aired by Pacifica Radio station KPFT-FM in Houston and now plays weekly on dozens of U.S., Canadian and Australian stations.
Download the radio program here
Published: December 5th, 2011 at 10:47 am ET
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Mutations not seen anywhere else in the world…
Well, that is going to change in the near future. Soon to come to a location near you.
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I’m gonna make popcorn from radiated GMO seeds….yay planet earth
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if the birds didn’t have enough antioxidants…the cells died.
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Antioxidants! Ya just can’t have too many of those nowadays!
Also fresh rosemary repairs broken DNA chains. Rutin, chlorophyll.
Feels sometimes like we’re just scrambling up a sand bank.
I know most of us survived the bomb test fallout internal contamination though we’ve most certainly been injured…but i’m spread so thin covering every angle to protect the children this year.
My Christmas wish is that people start hearing, learning and believing the shocking truth that governments lie and leave us all in harm’s way when the radiation falls back doWn to earth. That nuclear power is a Demon of Death I have no doubt and shall only be conquered by The Light of Truth and all us angels that dwell within.
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hmm…They did tell people to leave the area, and any prolonged stay would have undesired consequences. IS this really that surprising, anything living in massive amounts radiation for 25 years will have defects? Either way. Not a fan of this Caldicott, (funny that when you type her name in spell checker wants to change it to “Idiotically” Made me LOL) Either way, theres a national geographic link that says dr.mousseau doesnt know what causes the deformation.
“Whether radiation is damaging wildlife in Chernobyl is still an open question.”
As Professor Mousseau points out, there is still no comprehensive, published census of animals in the zone to answer that question.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14250489
In that link one scientists, claims hes found more bio-diversity, within the most contaminated lake in near Chernobyl.
I have even searched through Dr.Mousseau website, and their aren’t any pictures of any deformations. Yes a pine tree, that looks like a sling shot. Not too shocking. Also a bird, which looks normal. IDK about Caldicott. She always has these statements, then goes into heading for a couple months. Then she finds someone else who supports her ideas. Surely they have photographic evidence, which would be more compelling, to me.
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picture books are mostly for grade school kids grownups read and comprehend differently. I suspect your problem stems from arrested mental development from working in or near NPPs. caring for the suffering of others is also another symptom. there is a consensus for the hazards of nuke technology on biological systems but you have to pass a test of character and humanity to get it. Ever been to a children’s cancer ward, just the look in their eyes is something you carry for the rest of your life. proof for the blind doesn’t come from a picture.
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Comprehend this:
/facepalm.exe
“One of the worst trends in documentation is the sort which prattles incoherently on for pages without managing to demonstrate anything concrete.”
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i believe your education has failed to provide you with the ethical boundaries necessary to allow you to contribute meaningfully to solve the problems we face as one people in a world that is treated as a trashcan and the people in it are useful only as a means to extract wealth and power for the greedy. putting on blinders to the truth and believing in your own BS that’s just sad.
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Are you saying that if you visited an adult cancer ward, you wouldn’t see the exact same thing in their eyes?
Shameful that you imply sick children are somehow more sympathetic than an adult with an illness.
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All right jdotg, to your cyberface, you are a shill. Caldecott has a lot less time and far more brains than you. At least do some simple research, bro
http://www.helencaldicott.com/
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Beware . Exe files. …… Application files. …Not normally seen in public forums.
We need our computers and this poster obviously has an alternate agenda.
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I always accepted your point of view with an open mind vdotg, until now.
The lack of documentation perhaps is the most irresponsible excuse you could use to explain away any accountability the industry bears in the fullness of the accidents.
I also have never seen a .exe link posted here. Why are you posting an application here anyways?
Right or wrong you seem to be a kind of almost dangerous kind of member.
The wildlife tells you and the others who thinks its ok to poison their lives and then not help them after to go Fuck Yourselves.
You arent as smart as you think.
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I didn’t mean to misspell your name.
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Obviously these people did not smile enough. Shame on them for that. Remember to smile Japan, your government is not lying to you! If they were you would arrest them all though right?
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jdotg one statistic is all you have to add to this argument to use as means to provide a contribution here?
Are you serious? Get more links supporting your stance and come back.
Dpl people are becoming more delusional by the second. The more reality is placed in front of certain people, the more they hide in pointless arguments. Trust me I do understand but at a certain point it is not helpful.
@jdotg: Wake up, face what is happening, and do your part. Your part is to provide “pertinent” information to help people in Japan and then around the world.
You’re welcome.
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Well, I actually have a mutant chicken who hatched about three weeks ago. He only has one small eye and the top half of his beak skews off to one side away from his eye. But I am in Australia. All the other birds were fine. I did however find that there was a box about 2 feet from the incubator that had THREE old smoke detectors in it, full of americium241, courtesy of idiot x-husband who left it there. Don’t know if its connected, but little mork the alien chicken is very stunted, and I don’t expect he will live a long life. I was just so impressed that he managed to hatch with that poor skewed beak, I didn’t have the heart to kill him. He has learned how to drink water, and sorta feed himself, but not very well. Was it radiation? don’t know.
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Vivvi I think it would be informative to hatch out eggs by the americium to see if it was that or maybe Fuku….. See if you get same results…
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vivvi,
Can you take some pic’s of the little fella and post them ?
The beak skews off to one side is documented from areas at Chernobyl fallout very common and has been seen often where other radioactive materials have been released !
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