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	Alarmism

cniq_cniq

11-20-2007 6:38 PM

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alarmism, global warming, climate change, hype, hysteria, greed

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11-20-2007 9:21 PM

topsailangler

I think I see a pattern developing at the UN........

11-21-2007 2:24 PM

Rashid Malik

To err is human!

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  "The Scientists Speak," reads the headline of the New York Times editorial, 
  which informs us that there is no question the New York Times editorialists 
  are right:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010887"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">There is no doubt! These are scientists, after all, and they're working for 
  the U.N. They don't make mistakes!</FONT></FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">Or do they? Here's a <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/20aids.html">news 
  story</A> that also appears in the Times today:</FONT></FONT></p> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"> 
  </FONT></FONT><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">The United Nations' AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report today acknowledging 
    that it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections with 
    the deadly virus have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 
    1990s.</FONT></FONT></p> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">We're so confused. Didn't the scientists speak? How could they have gotten 
  it so wrong? After all, they're <I>scientists!</I></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010887"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">Here's a quote from the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978.html">Washington 
  Post</A> that may shed some light on the matter:</FONT></FONT></p> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"> 
  </FONT></FONT><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Times">"There was a tendency toward alarmism, and that fit perhaps a certain fundraising 
    agenda," said Helen Epstein, author of "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, 
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