A kind of tenuous link, but I have just started reading this book, that
tries to sort out the facts from the hysteria.  It's only about various
health & food scares, but it illustrates the point how sensationalist scare
mongering is being accepted as fact these days.

http://www.newstatesman.com/Life/200507180064

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844541223/026-8415123-1513240

Highly recommended.

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Scientists find errors in global warming
data


Mark Twain.  The actual quote is "There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics."

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