strange news: Entire village hit by mystery illness that causes residents to sleep for days

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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What's a bit stunning is that all of those news agencies reported the same nonsense without even the slightest attempt to find new or factual information, and without noting that there is zero precedent for such a thing. That's simple plagiarism.

OK, that's not really stunning, but it should be.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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What's a bit stunning is that all of those news agencies reported the same nonsense without even the slightest attempt to find new or factual information, and without noting that there is zero precedent for such a thing. That's simple plagiarism.

OK, that's not really stunning, but it should be.
They're just following the leads of the big boys, who never seem to care about vetting a story, either.
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
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It looks like radiation used for cancer treatment can cause encephalopathy. If that is really what happened to those people, they are not long for this world.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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It looks like radiation used for cancer treatment can cause encephalopathy. If that is really what happened to those people, they are not long for this world.
Isn't that gamma radiation? Radon is primarily an alpha emitter and the primary danger is from inhalation of the gas. If they are getting enough gamma from it and its daughters to cause this, I would imagine they would have already long been dead.
 
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