“Epidemiologists love the word ‘could’ because it can always assure them of a headline.”
, London, arguing that the swine flu scare was overhyped by media-hungry scientists
“The risk is not hyping the pandemic threat, but underplaying it.”
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“Influenza A H1N1 is certainly a public health disaster requiring extensive new coverage… But the meningitis epidemic in west and central Africa is a massive killer today. And I’m guessing your readers haven’t heard one word of it.”
Marc Dubois, executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières (UK), in a , London
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Scepticism India’s rationalist association has offered £14,000 to any astrologer who correctly predicts the outcome of the country’s general election
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Gunther von Hagens The controversial German anatomist has attracted criticism for his latest exhibition, , which features two plastinated corpses having sex
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52 per cent of Americans consider a TV to be a necessity, according to a by the Pew Research Center. This is the lowest figure since the poll began in 1973
