Unlike you.

You really must ask for that raise from those lobbyists, if only to pay for the Pepto, Peggy.
I'm sure than can do better than $6.50 an hour.

Hey, I have an idea.
Start a union, why don't you?

Unlike you.

You really must ask for that raise from those lobbyists, if only to pay for the Pepto, Peggy.
I'm sure than can do better than $6.50 an hour.

Hey, I have an idea.
Start a union, why don't you?

Suggests? May have?

“You can't get hired, I bet, at the New York Times if you know what an “exajoule” is.

Neither would you know that building just two nuclear reactors over two decades would provide more energy production per year than 50 years of making solar cells has been able to produce.

Too expensive. Accident. Slow. Cost overrun.

And then they make sure that you hear the words of the Union of Concerned “Scientists” (quotation marks mine) who has a “nuclear expert” named David Lochbaum. And why is David Lochbaum an expert?

Has he published a series of famous papers on mass balance of minor actinide burn-up in the cores of light water reactors? Is he a world expert on germanium based detection of neutron fluxes? Does he supervise a team of graduate students researching non destructive testing of fuel rods achieving high burn-ups in reactor cores? Is he a much sought lecturer on the subject of separations of europium from curium in electrolytic pyroprocessing of metallic spent nuclear fuels?

Well no.

I mean, what, exactly makes David Lochbaum a nuclear expert worthy of immediate reference by the New York Times whenever they discuss nuclear energy.

Well for one thing, David Lochbaum is a professional nuclear opponent hired by a reflexive antinuclear organization that collects lots of money for professionally opposing nuclear energy. (Nothing circular here, is there?) In other words, David Lochbaum is a professional anti-nuclear shill, who is paid to oppose nuclear energy.

And why did the Union of Concerned “Scientists” (which has, on its board people from sciences like “lawyer science” and “actress science”) hire David Lochbaum to be a tireless antinuclear activist?

Because he had a degree in nuclear engineering. And…?…?…?

Oh yes, because he once worked at Brown's Ferry 1, a reactor that shut twenty two years ago.

And in those twenty years he has done what research, published what papers, had access to what reactors…?

Who cares?

He's an expert. He don't need no stinking “research.”

Why?

Because the Union of Concerned “Scientists,” (another member of the board is a “scientist” in Capitalist Investment Science) says he is an expert.

Speaking of “scientists” an international group of scientists known as the IPCC recently gathered to discuss the fact that dangerous fossil fuel waste is accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere and represents a severe threat to humankind.

No, David Lochbaum, doesn't know shit about that either.”

Peggy's effort to smear the Union of Concerned Scientists with innuendo is a typical wingnut diversion. The data showing the health consequences of TMI was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, an agency of the federal government. The fact that David Lochbaum works for UCS is irrelevant.

Every donation by various UCS employees is to a Democrat or the DNC. Every one.