[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Stefano Mori]

On 2007-Aug-16, at 16:13, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>> Something like eight times more babies have been
>> dying than normal. In effect, the prediction about babies dying of
>> AIDS has led to FAR MORE BABIES DYING of dysentery than were
>> predicted to die of AIDS. They had data, they had a mechanism, they
>> had a model, and they made a prediction, they acted on that
>> prediction.
>
> By leaving out the allegation that the "they" who established the
> mechanism were employed by the baby formula companies, particularly
> Nestle, you  change the meaning of this story. The moral is 'Don't
> trust PR masquerading as science."

"United Nations recently estimated that one-third of all infants with  
H.I.V. got the virus through their mothers' milk"

<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? 
sec=health&res=9C05E6DD153CF93BA35755C0A961958260>

So the United Nations was taken in by them?

Did nobody check this stuff??

You make them sound like amateurs.

Maybe we should trust the IPCC instead... oh, wait.

Stefano