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If you want to accuse someone of deceit, I suggest you accuse the Soviet Union, because they executed such a good cover-up that 20 years later your article says only 50 people have died. The actual number of indisputable, directly confirmed deaths is 56, and all estimates say that thousands, the WHO says 4000, will eventually die from causes related to this tragedy. If 4000 deaths isn't a disaster, I don't know what is. Bohdan 00:21, 3 October 2007 (EDT)
About the hype
Ed, i added those 4000 deaths that the study predicted to the article, those early estimates where offcourse allso estimates of the total number of casualties, not just people who died right after the incident. And those estimates wheren't only the estimates of enviromentalists or liberals, those where made by medical and other professionals who did the best they could based on the information they got from the accident.
Allso, how can you actually say that the distress of people living in those areas is caused by the "hype around environmentalist predictions" I would bet that their distress has bit more to do with the fact that an nuclear powerplant exploded at their backyard and that even with the new predictions around 4000 people will die eventually because of that. Allso when there has been around 4000 thyroid cancer cases, i would say that most of them actually have a reason to be afraid. WillM 06:51, 3 October 2007 (EDT)
Oh, and just noticed, the report actually speaks from 4000 - 9000 casualties, so the 4000 is the best case scenario even in this study. WillM 06:58, 3 October 2007 (EDT)
Allso worth noting is that there has been other studyes made from the subject afterwards, from which many don't agree with this one. For example here is a study that estimates the death toll to be around 30 000 - 60 000 and the new study made by 52 scientists to Greenpeace sets the estimate to even higher[1]. This controversy is discussed in this article by BBC. So still today the estimates range from that 4000 - 9000 to all the way up to 100 000. WillM 07:39, 3 October 2007 (EDT)