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Chicken Little of the Sea
Great. Just great. Now I gotta worry about the goddamned cruise ship industry:
Pollution from ships, in the form of tiny airborne particles, kills at least 60,000 people each year, says a new study. And unless action is taken quickly to address the problem – such as by switching to cleaner fuels – the death toll will climb, researchers warn.Premature deaths due to ultra-fine particles spewed out by shops will increase by 40% globally by 2012, the team predicts.
I'm sure that'll be another soul-wrenching* "investigative report" on the local Fox News tonight...
* to say nothing of 'stomach churning'.
Without reading the actual journal articles (I make good money, but not the kind to start buying every article like this I see), this things got a few problems:
-Correlation =! Causation
-Appears to be no adjustment for other factors
-Premature deaths may be defined, but premature for what? They're comparing areas of "dirtier" vs "cleaner" - and the write up (at least) gives no indication that they sorted for only deaths that had somewhat similar symptoms.
-I dunno if smokers are removed and the other industries in these areas appear to be not addressed.
Pure, unadulterated crap.
Posted by: ron on November 8, 2007 12:57 PMI never understood how anyone could possibly think Fox has a "right-wing" bias. They have a "sensationalist" bias, if anything, It's just that every other network has such an overwhelmng leftist bias that Fox seems right-wing in comparison.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 10, 2007 02:48 PM