Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey at The New Atlantis:
Is nuclear skepticism really anti-science? Has the time come for opponents to get over themselves and toe the scientific line?
This is too simple a way to think about the challenges posed by nuclear power. Nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg, writing in 1972, found so many difficulties with estimating the health effects of radiation and the safety of nuclear power that he coined a new term, trans-science, to distinguish it from areas where prediction and clear answers are possible. How is it that Michael Shellenberger and Steven Pinker are able to cut through the messy complexities of nuclear power to uncover the pure, evidential truth?
The answer is that they have not actually been able to. The story about nuclear power offered by its most vocal advocates is not scientific but scientistic.
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