{"id":8965,"date":"2011-03-18T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2011-03-18T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T17:48:15","slug":"precautionary-principle-applies-to-government-assurances-on-japan-radiation-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8965\/precautionary-principle-applies-to-government-assurances-on-japan-radiation-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Precautionary Principle Applies to Government Assurances on Japan Radiation Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists embrace the \u2018precautionary principle\u2019 in opposing human development of land.\u00a0 In essence, the principle boils down to better-safe-than-sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Though eco-crazies use the precautionary principle as a substitute for science that empowers government, Americans on the West Coast should put the teaching to another use: being skeptical of government assurances that radiation from Japan is too little to harm humans.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/reports-of-harmless-radiation-reaching-california-are-a-whitewash\/\" target=\"_blank\">one commentator puts it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition, the radiation currently being measured does not take into account radiation emitted by pools of deadly spent nuclear rods, which only began to emit serious amounts of radiation a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>We will not know the true level of the threat until the radiation particles emitted as a result of the three explosions that devastated Fukushima hits the west coast over the weekend and into Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to recount similar guarantees that turned out to be fatally false.\u00a0 The most recent example involved Ground Zero workers being told \u2013 erroneously \u2013 that the air on site was safe to breathe.\u00a0 Tragically, hundreds of ground crew workers are suffering from crippling illnesses associated with inhaling toxic substances.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we\u2019re being told that buying over-the-counter potassium iodine pills <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-tells-americans-do-not-prepare-for-radioactive-fallout-just-listen-to-your-government.html \" target=\"_blank\">verges on alarmism<\/a>.\u00a0 If the price of a helpful supplement puts one\u2019s mind at ease, have at it.\u00a0 After all, it\u2019s not like the president and his party can boast a sterling track record when it comes to predicting outcomes in the economy, health care or job creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists embrace the \u2018precautionary principle\u2019 in opposing human development of land.\u00a0 In essence, the principle boils down to better-safe-than-sorry. Though eco-crazies use the precautionary principle as a substitute for science that empowers government, Americans on the West Coast should put the teaching to another use: being skeptical of government assurances that radiation from Japan is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1773,143,301,2498,1300,510,2499,2497],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-1773","tag-barack-obama","tag-environmentalism","tag-ground-zero","tag-japan","tag-nuclear","tag-precautionary-principle","tag-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}