Let's be kind and suggest that you didn't hear it properly - maybe you weren't concentrating as you only accidently flicked him on:
From his blog March 14 this year.
Take, just for starters, Garrett's fond claim that the Chernobyl accident killed 30,000 people, or even 250,000 - a claim that, quite typically, no journalist called him on at the time. His figure is the purest tosh, of course. The known death toll from Chernobyl is just 50 or so, with many of the dead killed by the force of the blast, rather than any radiation sickness.
And, unlike Garrett, I can give a credible source for my statistic - the Chernobyl Forum, which in 2005 worked out the cost of the world's only reactor explosion with the help of scientists from eight United Nations bodies, including the World Health Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as of experts appointed from the worst-hit countries, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Maybe you can convince yourself to take the time to find him claiming 2 or 3 - go on, you know you can do it. Nobody wants to be accused of making false claims.
