Posted on 06/16/2008 12:30:58 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Fear is our national pastime. As a society, we have a long history of getting whipped into a collective frenzy over threats to our health or children that are nearly (or completely) non-existent. No danger is too small or remote to be exaggerated and screamed from the headlines.
For example:
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
Campbell Brown (Tracey Ullman) and the Nightly sense of impeding doom (Compilation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4eTbfp74o
This was good.
Won’t MSNBC be jealous!
The most overhyped health scare I can recall was the one about having a house near high-tension power lines. If I recall correctly, some guy claimed it was associated with leukemia. Aggreate losses to property values exceed 1 TRILLION dollars nationwide.
Then some other people analyzed his data, and said that his findings don’t match his results. The guy said essentially that he was sure he was right and he didn’t care that the data didn’t prove it.
Is one of them the latest fearmongering over tomatoes?
Carbon Monoxide in products??
(trying to imagine...)
Additionally, 100% of those born between 1817 and 1884, who ate pickles, are now dead.(Where's legislation protecting us?)
One day, the engine from a passing 727 tumbled from the sky and crushed him to death.
Of course, it was ruled as yet another senseless alcohol-related death.
All past, and virtually all recent studies, prove conclusively that the death rate has hovered around 100% for many centuries...and is very likely to remain so for centuries to come.
Carbon-monoxide-treated meat ... “it’s a good thing” ... if you are a meat purveyor. ;)
It’s the noise level that’s interesting.
I don’t see how they missed the stupid second hand smoke garbage. I think that is easily in the top five list, well above the cranberry scare.
British Man Dies After Inhaling Spores Of Garden Fungus
All Headline News | June 14, 2008 | Nidhi Sharma
Posted on 06/14/2008 5:40:27 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031237/posts
NY health official: Higher tax helps smokers quit (some dissension)
Associated Press | Jun 15, 2008 | Valerie Bauman
Posted on 06/15/2008 4:07:02 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031573/posts
I heard that there’s an awful lot of dihydrogen monoxide causing problems in the Midwest. I support the ban!
You forgot “Death by Wombat.” I’m sure it’s somewhere between “Severe” and “High.”
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