Caldicott is also almost certainly guilty of hyperbole in her reporting of the Three Mile Island accident. Caldicott, referring to one of her earlier works, claims that "hundreds of nearby residents" suffered symptoms of acute radiation sickness, the symptoms indicative of radiation doeses of "at least 100 rads" in the immediate aftermath of the accident. This is almost certainly rubbish. As the Wikipedia's article on radiation poisoning explains, if such symptoms occurred they would have been very easily identifiable by medical professionals, and such doses would have resulted in spontaneous abortions in pregnant, severe decreases in red blood cells counts, extended sickness, and probably a number of short-term casualties. However, Caldicott doesn't report any evidence for such occurrences. Caldicott is a doctor, and would know this perfectly well. If she had such evidence, she presumably would have presented it in the book. I do not understand how Caldicott, in good conscience, can make such claims when there are such apparent gaps in her evidence.Maybe because when it comes to claims like these, she doesn't have a conscience?
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