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The first reactions to Fukushima on HN and the downvotes of your inconvenient comment show the massive pro-nuclear bias of many users here.
by codeup 15y ago
The first reactions to Fukushima on HN and the downvotes of your inconvenient comment show the massive pro-nuclear bias of many users here.
- dolvlo 15y agoIt's not so much pro-nuclear as it is pro-"scientific progress".
- kaffiene 15y agoBeing anti-nuclear is not being anti scientific progress. And a scientific approach to this issue would have been to wait and judge the data, rather than claim that a melt down was impossible at the outset.
- gnosis 15y agoIt's not just a pro-nuclear bias. It's techno-utopianism and scientism. The ideology is that science and technology can cure humanity of all its problems, if only they were not so small-minded and ignorant to reject it. There's also a strong identification between science and technology and their proponents' core identities, so that fundamental questioning of some of their benefits is seen as personally threatening.