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  1. Anthony,
    The Fukushima radiation fallout is a major issue that we need to deal with…
    But your article headline is completely FALSE.
    The report states that the rate of child hypothyroidism rose by as much as 28% — this is not the same thing as "1/3 of west cost children hit with thyroid problems." Nowhere in the report is such an alarming statistic mentioned.
    There is a HUGE difference between "hyperthyroidism increases by 1/3" and "1/3 of children hit by thyroid problems". You should know better.
    If you're going to do important research and break key news items, don't use misleading or wildly inaccurate headlines.

    1. correction — hypothyroidism, not hyperthyroidism.

      1. i despise the spelling police

        1. in this case it is very important, they are two very different diseases

          1. ya they are, i have the hyper kind not the hypo..

        2. Cora corrected her own post…

  2. blank joel atkins says:

    Who cares how its spelled its the message that is of most importance. Also the Radioactive Aerosols travel on the jet stream. It can come down as hot rain. There are lots of people who have wiped rain offof their windshield and put an inspector geiger counter on it. Its went off of the scales. Obama recieved alot of kickbacks from the nuke industry go figure. Corruption is power!

  3. no spelling police here, hypo and hyper -thryroidism are different conditions

    1. the hypo kind u gain a lot of weight, and u always tired. and the hyper kind u loose a lot of weight. i know cuz i have it

  4. blank Daniel Beck says:

    Can we please send a drone to wipe that rat basterd Obama of the damn planet? This guy is such a turd, I hope there is a hell. Even if I end up in the same place, Obama has a special place there. I hope I can tourcher his retarded weak soul.

  5. blank Linda yow says:

    At least In this article te author didnt tranlate a 28% increase as 28% of the popultion. Do a google search if you want to see bad math causing controversey. This may be a true statisitc but theres really not enough evidence. The Hispanic population has the highest rate of congenital hypothyroidism in the US and the hispanic population has risen dramatically in the past year in California. Not saying that’s the cause either just pointing out the confounding factors in determining the cause of the “increase”. Also true that the small number of cases overall makes the statistics pretty unreliable until several years of data exist.

  6. I kept clippings from newspapers and followed the local and world news when this happened. EVERYONE was affected by the melt down in some way or another.

    1. blank oliverbeerthanks says:

      Oh Yeah, the newspapers and most media NEVER Lie or exaggerate do they! Are you that naive? – Asked by a person that lived close by – to Fukushima!

  7. blank ToyBoat7& says:

    http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/06 here’s an article from Common Dreams which happens I be a HIGHLY reputable sit so while the author may have put hyper VS hypo or what the hell ever the jist of this is no joke so wake up sleeping sheeple….

  8. blank thyroid geek says:

    No surprise that I see more women with big Adam’s apples on West coast. has to do something with their thyroids being damaged by I-131 fallout!!

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