... the sky is blue, the grass is green, Michael Moore is fat, Cindy Sheehan is shrill and the UN exaggerates a crisis using faulty science:
The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement.
AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic.
The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections at 2.5 million, a cut of more than 40 percent from last year's estimate, documents show. The worldwide total of people infected with HIV -- estimated a year ago at nearly 40 million and rising -- now will be reported as 33 million.
Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.
Hey, here's a novel idea I'm sure no one has thought of... replace the word AIDS with Global Warming in strategic ways in those paragraphs above and guess what... I'm thinking the story remains the same.
UN spreads lies for political and financial reasons.
Seems to be a pattern.
Happy Thanksgiving My Friend.
eric aka www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Posted by: eric | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 10:57 PM
>UN spreads lies for political and financial reasons.
HAHAHAH! Yes, the UN makes tons of money from AIDS and yes AIDS doesn't exist just like climate change.
Posted by: sa | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 07:55 AM
AIDS does exist. My neighbor's son died from it - a boy I grew up with from earliest childhood. But he fit the extreme type of sufferer - out-of-control homosexual lifestyle probably including all the drugs and alcohol and other bodily abuses.
The distinction needs to be made between carrying the HI virus and having the disease AIDS.
Posted by: Mommynator | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 10:56 AM