Mainstream media journalists flunk high school physics when reporting on radiation
Mainstream media journalists flunk high school physics when reporting on radiation
Today, theBoston Globepublished a story containing this whopper:
Nuclear safety spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama says the air above the leak contains 1,000 millisiverts of radioactivity.
Source:http://www.boston.com/news/world/as...
For starters, even the unit is spelled incorrectly. It's not "millisiverts" but rather "millisieverts." But that's a small issue compared to the bigger one.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031935_mainstream_media_millisieverts.html#ixzz1IfF8LRLo
Nuclear safety spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama says the air above the leak contains 1,000 millisiverts of radioactivity.
Source:http://www.boston.com/news/world/as...
For starters, even the unit is spelled incorrectly. It's not "millisiverts" but rather "millisieverts." But that's a small issue compared to the bigger one.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031935_mainstream_media_millisieverts.html#ixzz1IfF8LRLo