Reply #28: Here's my concern, Odin. [View All]

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Oxygen is indeed part of one mechanism that leads to cancer. Cancer can and does "occur naturally" no argument here. However, to say that it is "responsible for most cancer" ignores a good deal of epidemological research on environmental contamination. I'm not talking necessarily about radiation here, but chemical insult.

If you're so zealous in your support for any material that supports nuclear power that you buy this line, then you buy into a falsehood that leads one to totally ignore the carcinogenic danger posed by chemical contiminants in our homes, workplaces, and outdoor environment -- you know the very stuff that environmentalists try to fight when they aren't fighting that one big global warming problem... which isn't the only one of our worries.

Now, many authors that go over the top such as this do have good points buried in there. Try to dig them out and separate them from the grasping screed portions of the work. You'll get farther that way than trying to build up as an idol someone who obviously has no qualms about playing fast and loose with the truth.