Episode 577 • • 1:45:22 - 1:47:52
577: Scripted Fat Talk
Fukushima Lawsuits, Media Manipulation of Science
The hosts examine sensationalized headlines regarding U.S. sailors suing the Navy over radiation exposure at Fukushima. They argue that many of these stories are manipulated by interests in the gas and supplement industries to sell products like iodine drops. They also point out that a widely shared "toxic cloud" map was actually a NOAA map of ocean currents, not atmospheric radiation.