>Apptech wrote:
>
>>  Next add the true costs of any indemnities offered against prosecution or
>>  liability. These are easily priced by estimating what price the market
>>  insurers would charge for them. if no insurers would front up at any
>>  cost it's not a viable industry - or so the market forces people would
>>  tell me. Why wouldn't I choose to believe them in this case ?
>
>I always get a strange feeling when the same people who just a few minutes
>ago told me that the superiority of the capitalist system lies in trusting
>the wisdom of "the masses" (whose actions determine the price of everything
>in such a system) are now telling me that it's the stupidity of "the [same]
>masses" that prevents the superior solution of the problem of the day.

The anti-nuclear movement has at the core a small group of 
scientifically illiterate people who oppose nuclear power for 
ideological reasons. Through a well financed dis-information 
campaign, they've been able to convince the general public that 
nuclear energy is dangerous. I still remember a book put out by one 
of them that claimed that the electricity produced by nuclear power 
plants was itself radioactive.

Of course the dismal state of scientific education in the US makes it 
quite easy for the general public to be manipulated.


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