Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”
I&#x27;m not an expert, but this doesn&#x27;t look too credible to me:<p>- I know that many death estimates for Chernobyl are highly exaggerated, but sticking to the official Soviet death toll of 31 seems ludicrous.<p>- Lyudmilla Ignatenko existed in real life and there are interviews with her telling how they didn&#x27;t let her hug her husband at the hospital due to radioactivity, and she had to hid her pregnancy to be let in. Of course she could be lying, but those would be strange lies to tell.<p>- If victims could not be radioactive, why were they buried in metal caskets covered in concrete? This is well documented an there are photos.<p>- Regarding the Ignatenko&#x27;s claim that the foetus had somehow protected her from radiactivity by absorbing it, personally I never interpreted it as a statement that the show was claiming as true. I saw it as the character&#x27;s own interpretation. The show portrays different characters with various degrees of ignorance, and no one in the show portrayed as knowledgeable defends that theory.<p>- There are photos of radiation victims from various incidents and they look not unlike what is seen in the series. Here are some (trigger warning, very graphic images): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;3x7RcLk#QrTJTm5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;3x7RcLk#QrTJTm5</a><p>There may be things to criticize about the show but this person looks like he is telling a quite biased story.