Somebody Awful posted:

Also, make sure to read the end notes and citations and take any statement that cites Grigori Medvedev with a large grain of sand and boron, especially if it's a dramatic scene. Medvedev invented a bunch of bullshit to sex up his own account of Chernobyl, published relatively soon after the event, and subsequent authors have been largely content to repeat his lies even when they're flatly contradicted by the testimony of pretty much everyone who was actually there and lived to tell about it. Nobody had heated arguments in the control room. Nobody went into the reactor hall and saw channel caps bouncing up and down. Nobody, so far as has been credibly determined, got close enough to actually see the destroyed reactor and report back.

What is the cost of lies? Thirty years of tainted scholarship.