At 12:01 14-7-01 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> > >Many of the others that you mention post emotional diatribes
> > >that clearly show they do not understand or care about the math,
> > >science, and engineering details, and have dubious (or non-existant)
> > >references.
> >
> > Wow, that's a blanket statement if there ever was one.
>
>Perhaps you didn't see the word "many". In English, when someone says
>"many of the ______" they are referring to some largish subset of a
>group, not the entire group.
OK, mr. Genius, you got some explaining to do.
1. I mentioned that NONE of those documentaries/articles/groups/individuals
ever claimed that nuclear power is green. You then reply that many of them
"post emotional diatribes" and don't know what they're talking about, and
even explain that "many" means "some largish subset". In other words: some
of them (total group minus the largish subset) apparently DO NOT post
emotional diatribes, and actually do know what they are talking about. If
they all say the same thing (nuclear power isn't green), how can "many" of
them be wrong, and at the same time "some" of them be right?
2. Define "many" as used by you in "many of the others". How large is that
"largish subset"? Is it 50% of the entire group? Or 75%? Or perhaps even
99.9%? Please provide the data to back up that claim.
Not that it makes much difference whether it's 90% or 10% -- it isn't any
less insulting to a large group of people. I can imagine that a journalist
(someone TRAINED and PAID to report FACTS) would consider it quite
insulting to be told "you have a 10% probability of being a liar".
3. Can you provide of list of the documentaries and articles that came out
in the last 3 decades that gave false information about nuclear energy? Can
you point out to us which individual journalists and environmentalists we
can or can't trust? You sound so sure of yourself in your semi-blanket
statement that you must have very detailed information about this.
Jeroen
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