SCARE SCIENCE: WHEN FACTS DON'T MATTER

http://www.junkscience.com/ ^ | February 15, 2007 | STEVEN MILLOY

[Lancey Howard]

February 15, 2007 -- THE highly publicized recent death of retired New York City police officer and Ground Zero worker Cesar A. Borja has all but cemented yet another junk-science-fueled myth in the pantheon of health scares.

The media rashly attributed Borja's death from pulmonary fibrosis to his supposed work at Ground Zero in the immediate aftermath of the Twin Towers collapse. Exploiting the political opportunity, Sen. Hillary Clinton took Borja's son to the Jan. 23 State of the Union Address. The son then met with President Bush, who was allegedly inspired to add $25 million to the federal budget for health care for 9/11 rescue workers.

But this story line was way ahead of the facts.

Contrary to early reports, Borja wasn't a 9/11 responder. He didn't begin working at Ground Zero until late-December 2001 - long after the most dangerous air from the site had dissipated and use of respiratory equipment by exposed workers became routine. Borja only worked on site for a total of 17 days. As it turns out, Borja was also a pack-a-day smoker until the mid-'90s - smoking being a significant risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H. L. Mencken

[Lancey Howard]

I read this at lunch today in the New York Post.
Everybody has an angle for stealing my tax dollars and it makes me sick.

[Lancey Howard]

Government is all about politicians stealing as much money from citizens as possible, using most of that money to buy votes to keep yourself in office, and then disbursing the rest among friends and family.

[Lancey Howard]

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[Lancey Howard]

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[TexasTransplant]

>>>>>>"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H. L. Mencken"<<<<<<<

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[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.

[StACase]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken

Ozone hole, Global Warmining, Acid Rain, Global Cooling, bla ...bla ...bla ...

[Eva]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken That's a quote worth remembering. I was reminded of the arsenic in the water scare that the Democrats perpetrated on the country in the beginning of the Bush administration. I read that whole Harvard Arsenic study before the report was written. The guy who was putting it together posted all the data on the internet as he gathered it, and the science didn't at all support the findings that were in the final report. It was all a big lie.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Government is all about politicians stealing as much money from citizens as possible, using most of that money to buy votes to keep yourself in office, and then disbursing the rest among friends and family.

This describes the RATS strategy to a T.