{"id":81105,"date":"2022-03-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81105"},"modified":"2022-03-14T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:52:03","slug":"modern-journalism-not-just-dead-but-rotting-so-hard-its-bubbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81105","title":{"rendered":"Modern Journalism: Not Just Dead, But Rotting So Hard It’s Bubbling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The KARE Bears are “fact checking<\/a>” people over, apparently, a run on iodine pills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, iodine pills won\u2019t protect you from most radiation effects in a nuclear attack<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which is true as far as it goes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

..but they’re not intended <\/em>to protect you from “most radiation”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’re intended to protect you from one particular kind <\/em>of radiation – radioactive isotopes of Iodine, which are incredibly prone to getting absorbed into the body and and infiltrating the thyroid – one of the body’s most delicate and temperamental organs – and causing thyroid cancer very quickliy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn’t, and isn’t intended to, prevent the side effects of other elements of a nuclear detonation – Cesium, Strontium 90 – but then those elements are generally responsible for much longer-term effects (strontium is liked with all kinds of bone cancers)…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…and it’s irrelevant, because the article isn’t about <\/em>nuclear attacks. It’s about fears in Europe over nuclear plants in Ukraine melting down while under Russian attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern “fact checkers”; they aren’t “fake news”, per se. But they are fake journalism. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The KARE Bears are “fact checking” people over, apparently, a run on iodine pills. No, iodine pills won\u2019t protect you from most radiation effects in a nuclear attack Which is true as far as it goes… ..but they’re not intended to protect you from “most radiation”. They’re intended to protect you from one particular kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81145,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81105\/revisions\/81145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}