> Intentions don't mean much when someone somewhere has cut one corner too many and you and your family is in the fallout zone and can't leave the house, open the windows, trust your food or water safety, and that's AFTER the weeks go by before the "general population" finds out about it at all, while the people at the top of the power pyramid know within minutes or hours...

> Then, years later, you read HN comments downplaying the effects and the affected with the same types of arguments as Holocaust deniers.

> It's emotional, but it's not manipulation. It is the reality how it happened.

But those things happened where I lived when the Chernobyl cloud passed over. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...

Of course the writing style is not the same as the one used in a study abstract and probably the poster has some emotions about it but he's not writing irrational or emotional things. I do agree making a comparison with holocaust deniers approaches the Godwin threshold though. I'd have used climate change deniers instead.

Also, one can write rational things while still being driven by emotions.