electricmayhem
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That's why those of us that do this for a living preach not to react to short-term trends...
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tornado
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Here's another thing to be careful of given the misinformation and hype surrounding fears of radiation dangers........
There's been so much talk of radiation and radiation sickness, and illnesses that might come from radiation...
and in many, many stories on TV and in the press - they talk about distributing potassium iodide or "Iodine tablets" as some stories say and they hint that it gives protection from the radiation...
Time and time again I have read and heard this kind of talk...and it is almost always discussed as if the iodine has magical protective capabilities from all kinds of fears of radiation effects!!!
BUT -- almost the entire uninformed press is totally ignorant about this and are stating horribly incorrect facts...
FIRST the potassium iodide - as I am sure some know -- is ONLY an inhibitor of your thyroid taking up the iodine currently in your system. SO in the most OPTIMISTIC thinking -- the ONLY thing it MIGHT do is to reduce your chances of having your thyroid gland get exposed to radioactive iodine if you are in an environment where the radioactive iodine exists...
It still doesn't mean you won't suffer from the exposure, and I suppose the postassium iodide MIGHT have no effects and you'd maybe still get exposed...
BUT......... even if you did get exposed to radioactive iodine, the risks of getting thyroid cancer is the ONLY thing you'd suffer and even then the lag time or delay might be years or decades and even then THYROID cancer is rarely fatal or dangerous and easy to monitor, find, and treat!
So the only "protection" you are getting is a remotely minimal protection from only one illness that even in the worst case scenario won't strike for decades and is still treatable and rarely fatal.
So this whole iodine thing is like worrying in the middle of Hurrican Katrina that your 6th grader's baseball game might get rained out!!
It totally ignores the fact that iodine has ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on 99% of all the MOSt damaging and fatal of radiation's harmful effects!
BUT -- all the articles are literally promoting a panic and a run on pharmacies to get and take potassium iodide...
"... take potasium iodide as a preventative
medication against possible radiation fallout from
Japan's nuclear generating plant crisis."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51472727-76/iodide-drug-nuclear-utah.html.csp
http://www.bnet.com/blog/clean-ener...s-history-hoarding-potassium-iodide-pill/4535
Here's the catch in many of the articles about iodide....
-- they all make it sound like it protects your whole body from ALL the bad effects of all the radiation -- even the pluitonium's effects that might kill you or wipe out your bone marrow...
Beware -- there's a lot of misinformation!
There's been so much talk of radiation and radiation sickness, and illnesses that might come from radiation...
and in many, many stories on TV and in the press - they talk about distributing potassium iodide or "Iodine tablets" as some stories say and they hint that it gives protection from the radiation...
Time and time again I have read and heard this kind of talk...and it is almost always discussed as if the iodine has magical protective capabilities from all kinds of fears of radiation effects!!!
BUT -- almost the entire uninformed press is totally ignorant about this and are stating horribly incorrect facts...
FIRST the potassium iodide - as I am sure some know -- is ONLY an inhibitor of your thyroid taking up the iodine currently in your system. SO in the most OPTIMISTIC thinking -- the ONLY thing it MIGHT do is to reduce your chances of having your thyroid gland get exposed to radioactive iodine if you are in an environment where the radioactive iodine exists...
It still doesn't mean you won't suffer from the exposure, and I suppose the postassium iodide MIGHT have no effects and you'd maybe still get exposed...
BUT......... even if you did get exposed to radioactive iodine, the risks of getting thyroid cancer is the ONLY thing you'd suffer and even then the lag time or delay might be years or decades and even then THYROID cancer is rarely fatal or dangerous and easy to monitor, find, and treat!
So the only "protection" you are getting is a remotely minimal protection from only one illness that even in the worst case scenario won't strike for decades and is still treatable and rarely fatal.
So this whole iodine thing is like worrying in the middle of Hurrican Katrina that your 6th grader's baseball game might get rained out!!
It totally ignores the fact that iodine has ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on 99% of all the MOSt damaging and fatal of radiation's harmful effects!
BUT -- all the articles are literally promoting a panic and a run on pharmacies to get and take potassium iodide...
"... take potasium iodide as a preventative
medication against possible radiation fallout from
Japan's nuclear generating plant crisis."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51472727-76/iodide-drug-nuclear-utah.html.csp
http://www.bnet.com/blog/clean-ener...s-history-hoarding-potassium-iodide-pill/4535
Here's the catch in many of the articles about iodide....
-- they all make it sound like it protects your whole body from ALL the bad effects of all the radiation -- even the pluitonium's effects that might kill you or wipe out your bone marrow...
Beware -- there's a lot of misinformation!