Exactly! And in the "No-spin Zone," Ann Fair-and-Balanced Coulter said that radiation is actually good for us; we're just too stupid to know it.

It's a good question and one that illustrates how the corporate media takes advantage of most people's lack of understanding about radioactivity and how they use psy-op tactics to associate unrelated aspects so it seems like "it's all good."

Quick primer:

There are three type of radioactive emission from nuclear materials: alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays.

Humans have two main types of exposure to radioactivity: internal and external.

In medical procedures to treat cancer, they're using external gamma rays to kill lots of cells. It's still medieval and barbaric, it's a lot like killing a fly with a sledgehammer, but it's good PR for GE and the nuclear industry so the medical establishment pushes it as a "therapy." Setting that aside, the main take-away point here is that 1) they're using gamma rays in medical "treatment" 2) it's external to the body and 3) it's still killing waay more good cells than the bad ones.

What Coulter and the rest of the nuclear shills are conveniently leaving out is that the most dangerous exposure to humans far away from the Fukushima meltdown is alpha particles that get inside the body. They do this by adhering to dust particles that can then travel thousands of miles (and already are) that we then breathe in or ingest them or they get inside by picking our noses or rubbing our eyes.

We're talking about radioactive atoms of strontium, which goes into the bones and stay there; iodine, which attacks the thyroid gland; cesium, which attacks the digestive system; plutonium, which attacks the brain; and others. These are all alpha particle emitters. They stay in the body and relentlessly ping-ping-ping, destroying cells around them, causing damage and mutations eventually resulting in cancer. If you get enough of them, you'll start manifesting symptoms right away: flu-like; skin blotches; hair loss; tooth loss; sloughing off the inner lining of the intestines; vomiting; coma; death.

Do you see how they cleverly lie by omission and confusion? The best lies have an element of truth to make them more believable.

And they all do it--Faux News by no means has a corner on the market. All television programing is about propagandizing and distracting you, to keep you on the ideological plantation. That's why they call it "programming." It's a military psy-op weapon. Everyone should turn off the TV. Use the internet to seek out alternative information... while you still can before they shut it down or control it, as they're discussing right now in Congress.