David Ropeik
David Ropeik
@dropeik.bsky.social
retired Harvard Instructor in the psychology of risk perception, author, potter
Sorry, but this is blatant radiophobia. Entire cities were razed!!!??? By nuclear BOMB explosions, not the low doses people got from Chernobyl or Fukushima, which careful study has found caused very few cancer deaths (chernobyl) and NONE (Fukushima).
April 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
DeLorenzo's tomato pies in the Chambersburg neighborhood of, Trenton NJ.
April 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
oppose anything loudly enough and the media is almost forced into it's comfortable knee-jerk "to be balanced we have to include all sides" response. It took years for U.S. environmental journalists (I was one) to lead the way out of that hole on climate change
April 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Tribe, baby, it's all about the safety and protection of being a loyal and well-accepted member of a tribe. Intrinsic human biology
April 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I suggest that we also include in that conversation what government is, and what it does. Sorry Ronald Reagan and everyone on the radical right. Government is NOT the problem. Government, which can be too invasive for sure, does all sorts of things that make modern civilization possible
April 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM