The ban came about in the first place for political reasons more than a legitimate health concern, and the propaganda was
pure fear mongering, leading people who have done research to see opponents as merely ignorantly reiterating the old lies on a pavlovian reflex upon hearing the label «drug» which is equally applicable to caffeine.
Tchernobyl is mainly caused by the encounter of stalinian lack of respect for security, with modern «management by profitability»... after decennies of
pure soviet management, the mix of management pressure with soviet terror, cooked with economic weakness lead to the drama... then soviet hiding, occidental cowardness, NGO
fear mongering, crony capitalism son of Washington Consensus, finish the dirty job... and most of the dead and poor are not linked to radioactivity, but to crony capitalism and
fear mongers.