Faking Nuclear News

 HAD YOU LIVED in Russia in 1811, and chosen to believe that the French army didn't exist, not only would you have been verifiably wrong, you might well have been in dire danger, or dead. Denial of reality can be temporarily comforting and therapeutic, but it can also be deadly dangerous. Denial of climate change, denial the atmospheric carbon pollution by people is a clear and present danger, threatens to result in ecological collapse, with disastrous consequences for human civilization. The climate, long term weather patterns, have conspicuously changed almost everywhere on Earth, and yet climate change deniers, undaunted by reality, and probably thinking themselves quite clever, have devised a new strategy to deal dishonestly with observable reality; they now insist that although the climate is indeed changing, it would be doing so without human interference, humans, in essence, are innocent of wrong doing. Clever indeed, but harmful to our chances of long term survival, assuming we will need everyone's full cooperation to make the drastic changes necessary to heal our environment. Denial of proven, verifiable science in preference of personal fabricated fantasy is no less dangerous, as evidenced by the disastrous consequences to the American public of refusing to accept the absolute necessity of personal health related behaviors crucial to mitigating the spread of Covid 19. Its all based on simple biological fact. Health care workers tell stories about people gasping that the virus is a hoax, with their dying breath. Proven of proven scientific fact is denial of the real world.For religious reasons many people still refuse to accept the obvious reality of human evolution by natural selection, despite our being surrounded by and inundated in living proof of it.  Continuing denial of the efficacy of vaccines may soon contribute to the spread of untold suffering, disease, and death. Understanding the truth of climate change, vaccines, and evolution, jsut to name three huge examples, requires the most rudimentary understanding of chemistry, the same chemistry upon which nuclear physics is predicated. So far, there is no mass movement claiming that nuclear energy, nuclear power plants, and nuclear powered aircraft carriers are hoaxes. Let us hope that denial of reality, so common today, never becomes sufficiently extreme to spawn such nonsense.