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Michael Fumento: Still a Disingenuous Ideologue

So Michael Fumento has issued a challenge to put ‘odds’ on avian influenza, thinking that somehow I’ve stated that an avian influenza pandemic is likely (he’s also accused me, a scientist, of being “anti-scientist” and “alarmist). Well, I’m not putting odds down because I’ve never said that a pandemic is likely. Then again, one should hardly be surprised when a professional conservative completely distorts what one says.
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I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 1969

Because if I had been born in 1969, I would be 36 years old, and the Bush administration’s new abstinence program which is now targeting people up to 29 years old would ignore me.
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Newsweek: Run By Gutless Cowards

What should be the cover story of a major news magazine: the resurgence of the Taliban, or a biography of photographer Annie Leibowitz?
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