Our schools have failed yet again.

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Phosphorescent seafood freaking out folks

"It was like a bright eerie light was shining on it," said Peters, who works for a natural food store.

"I thought that maybe it had been overirradiated, you know, too much radiation. Now, whenever I buy seafood, I take it home and turn out the lights."

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Radiation does not make ordinary crap glow except in very rare cases, you dipshits! If you see the glow, you're dead, unless it's Cherenkov radiation in a suitably deep pool. Got it? Good. Gawd.

What do you want to bet he protests against food irradiation from this position of complete ignorance?

(BTW, it was naturally phosphorescent bacteria found in ordinary seawater.)

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Come on, the first guy works at a 'natural food store.' Of course he's going to fear what he thinks isn't natural. Hell, I bet he thinks uranium isn't natural.

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Worse: I saw a woman outside of Three Mile Island being interviewed a few years ago. She had cancer, and she was suing the reactor company. Meanwhile, her basement tested positive for levels of radon around 800x normal. When asked why she didn't suspect that instead, she said, perfectly seriously... "But that's a *natural* radiation."

One of the few times I've seen a reporter totally speechless.