Global Warming, Malaria, Hairy Palms.....

Interesting article over at the



Dangers of disinformation
Paul Reiter
Thursday, January 11, 2007

PARIS

President George W. Bush's new international anti-malaria campaign has been greeted with enthusiasm by its victims, but with pseudoscience by commentators.

That is not unusual: Fallacies infect every debate about the environment and affect policy, taxpayers' money and victims' lives.

Scientists ask questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, look at the evidence, modify the hypotheses and probe further. Then activists, news media and politics take over.

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