LA Times Editorial: Fact Checking Required
Posted on August 07, 2008
The LA Times today published an inaccurate and sloppy editorial stating: McCain's energy plan misleads the public and ignores the risks of nuclear energy. Nearly every claim in this opinion piece on nuclear energy is either grossly exaggerated or wrong. The editorial also makes several qualitative statements unsupported by facts to play into the fears of its readers. Here are a few:McCain claims that nuclear power is clean, safe and cheap, but it is none of the above. Nuclear waste remains hazardous for millenniums, and this country still hasn't developed a practical way to store it.No prac...
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