Monthly Archives: January 2004

Ross Gelbspan’s Pulitzer Prize

The other day I was glancing through some press releases related to global warming events when I happened across a release from a group called Religious Witness for the Earth which announced a November 10, 2003 event marking the fifth … Continue reading

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Just How Accurate Are Third World HIV Estimates?

In January, Kenya announced that its HIV rate had fell almost in half overnight. But this was not due to any new program adopted by Kenya. Rather the government released a more accurate estimate that only 6.7 percent of people … Continue reading

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Anti-Vaccine Hysteria Grips Nigeria

The World Health Organization’s goal of eradicating polio worldwide by 2005 ran into a major obstacle in October 2003 when three Nigerian states suspended polio vaccination over fears that the vaccine could cause AIDS, cancer and infertility. The largely-Muslim northern … Continue reading

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