From American Thinker (see recommended sites below)

January 05, 2008
Global Hot Air from the BBC
By Graham Cunningham

Mankind has, of course, always been subject to episodes of mass hysteria and the witch hunts that will follow in its wake. Never before though have the forces of unreason had such a loudhailer as is now provided by the mass media. Let’s have an intergovernmental UN panel of scientists to investigate the quality of information provided by the world’s media. How often have they presumed to foretell the future – and how often correctly so? How often have they accurately warned the world of an impending calamity? Check the media record on the ‘scientific consensus’ on the spread of Aids or Bird Flue or BSE. Let’s have a UN inquest on the ‘Millennium Bug’ or the ‘Next Ice Age’. Remember those? Your great television and newspaper savants apparently do not.

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