Disinformation is Dangerous – and often Deadly

PARIS – President George Bush’s new international anti-malaria campaign has been greeted with enthusiasm by its victims, but with pseudo-science by commentators.

That is not unusual. Fallacies infect every debate about the environment and affect policy, taxpayers’ money and victims’ lives.

Scientists ask questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, look at the evidence, modify the hypotheses and probe further. Then activists, news media and politics take over.

Look at climate change. The public hears again and again that there is scientific consensus, that it’s happening now, and that we are on the brink of disaster.

This is nonsense. But if we scientists don’t yell “Danger!” no one listens. For years, the public has been fed a lusty diet of climate doom and gloom, cooked and served by alarmists who use the language of science to push their agenda. Now, every politician of every stripe must embrace the “climate consensus” or be branded a callous skeptic.

...this “consensus” is a mirage.

The weather is largely out of our control, but malaria is not. While billions are spent on climate change prevention and by climate alarmist groups, malaria remains rampant, killing millions, making life a misery for hundreds of millions, and leaving countless people with brain damage – as among the children of Karatina, where the epidemic could easily and cheaply be eliminated. Yet, neither the alarmists nor EU or UN agencies are spending adequate funds on malaria, even as they spend millions propagating the lie that global warming is spreading the disease.

We have to hope that the new “Malaria No More” campaign is based on sound science, unlike the UN’s catastrophic current “Roll Back Malaria” scheme, which largely refused to use DDT or other insecticides and presided over a marked increase in malaria victims since 1998,

Pseudo-science will damage your health and wealth, just as surely as malaria will.

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