"Current state of academic research on SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19:
1. statistical significance is often ignored,
2. references are usually missing at the weakest logical points,
3. most of those papers have not undergone peer review,
4. reproducibility is largely missing.
[...]
I would strongly advise anyone to wait for better research coverage before drawing any conclusions on SARS-CoV-2."
A short essay on whether the Chernobyl wildfires represent any widespread radiation risk considering the strongest anticyclone ever recorded in Western Europe.
Question regarding Iodine-131: is it still being generated inside the spent fuel / nuclear waste in Chernobyl? From what I could gather, Iodine-131 is mostly a fission byproduct, and is not present in any of the 4 decay chains[1].
If none is still being generated, there should not be any significant quantity left considering it has a half-life of only 8 days.
It's an extremely uninformed essay too. It's talking about radioactive iodine, which is long since gone due to its short half-life. There's no point worrying about it, or taking iodine supplements to protect against it.
"Current state of academic research on SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19: 1. statistical significance is often ignored, 2. references are usually missing at the weakest logical points, 3. most of those papers have not undergone peer review, 4. reproducibility is largely missing. [...] I would strongly advise anyone to wait for better research coverage before drawing any conclusions on SARS-CoV-2."