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Flu Frenzy

February 19, 2006 1:08 PM by Jeffrey Tucker (Archive)

A duck gets sick in France; Britian goes nuts. Here are the number of "confirmed" cases of death so thus far. Tens of thousands worlwide? Actually 15 in 2006. Here is a thing I wrote on this topic.

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  • N. Joseph Potts

    Michael Crichton's discussion of his investigation of the Chernobyl "disaster" at http://www.crichton-official.com/ (shown here as speech on complexity and fear) discloses a similar gross hype-ing of infinitesimal numbers.

    Published: February 21, 2006 6:55 PM

  • Jack Maturin

    Hi Jeff, just thought I'd write in a let you know that there's some of us still alive over here in Britain. But can you write and let me know when it's time to come out of the shelter? I've lost my broadband link and I'm down to a 26k modem down here.

    Published: February 22, 2006 9:06 AM

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