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IRRADIATING FOOD VS. IRRADIATING PEOPLE: ?If we?re overcautious to the point of irrationality about?

By Glenn Reynolds

IRRADIATING FOOD VS. IRRADIATING PEOPLE: “If we’re overcautious to the point of irrationality about radiation, why then are we at all willing to let the government irradiate our bodies? . . . Is it that we are not only irrational, but we are also irrational in our choice of what to be irrational about? I don’t think so. Food radiation was something that businesses were permitted to do, but they stopped because we avoided buying the product. The government isn’t asking us whether we want our bodies irradiated if we want to travel by plane. It’s not like going to the grocery store and picking one package of hamburger instead of another. We still get our hamburger. We don’t have a choice of flying with radiation or without radiation. The only choice the government gives us is not to fly or to accept a groping.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 26, 2010 (boomark / email).