Did I find any factual mistakes in the movie? Well, as I said, he didn't express facts, he expressed opinions.
Take, as an example, something I actually know quite a bit about, the 2000 election. He is of the opinion that Bush stole the election. I believe that he's factually wrong on that, but I understand how he could have that opinion. Many do.
On the other hand, I don't recall him saying that depleted uranium weapons cause cancer. If he did, that was factually not just wrong, but boneheadedly wrong. It's the type of opinion expressed by people who know little or nothing about radiation, cancer or epidemiology. It's a very common opinion, but then, many believe that aliens take people up into spaceships to experiment on them.
They're wrong too, in my opinion, but I have no idea how to prove that (about the aliens).
The way you prove that depleted uranium doesn't cause cancer is with scientific evidence, of a type called epidemiology, because it's not ethical to expose humans to depleted uranium for the sake of science. It really should be cleaned up after wars, too, it's a heavy metal, and can cause heavy metal type damage, worse than lead, it is toxic if ingested in large enough quantities, that's true. But epidemiology proves DU doesn't cause cancer, just as breast implants don't cause cancer.
BTW, I expect that your "ethical deserters" were afraid for their own skins, afraid they, themselves would get cancer. |
