Rachel Slaybaugh

Yeah.

It is not correct.

And then I would say the nail in the coffin was Three Mile Island that happened like a couple of weeks or 10 days or something after that movie came out.

And so, like, you've just watched this movie, and then there is a meltdown.

Like, you would be terrified.

There's a bunch of things here, but if you look at what are the factors that go into human threat perception, our threat perception was not designed for big complicated systems, right?

It was designed for like hunting animals.

And so things that distort the level of threat we perceive for something is those kinds.

So if you think about, okay, it's way more dangerous to drive than fly, but people are afraid to fly and they're not afraid to drive.

It's that same thing, but like even more intense.

And it feels like it has grave consequences.

Like one car accident is, you know, a few people, but a plane crash is a lot of people.

It feels like a big consequence.

And even if...

the nuclear consequences actually aren't that high, the news coverage leads us to think something else.

So Three Mile Island is an interesting example where no one was actually harmed by radiation in Three Mile Island.

Zero.

But it felt so scary, and people were evacuating.

There was a lot of misinformation.

And so the increase of stress-related health effects in the Harrisburg area went up.