Comments on: David Hann: Disasters don’t kill people, Information does

By: Rhus

Rhus — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:44:50 +0000

What we need to address conservative concerns about human health scares are well controlled human experimentation. Perhaps we could create a Center for Experiments on Americans to run the lab trials. How many deaths will it take to satisfy the right?

By: Kerosene Hat

Kerosene Hat — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:25:20 +0000

I am not a global warming nay sayer and am more of an environmentalist than most of the Green Party folks I know here in Minneapolis but the press release wasn’t without a valid point or two.

It is not that knowledge kills but that incorrect or overstated information can be harmful. The complete ban on DDT did cause thousands of deaths unnecessarily in third world countries. The Chernobyl thing I don’t know anything about so won’t hazard a guess on what he means there. The Republicans have been using this tactic when it comes to terrorism, that the threat is real and any discussion of the matter is dangerous. There is a tendency to do the same thing by the left when it comes to the environment.

Hann’s press release was poorly done and a bit strange but that doesn’t make everything he says untrue. The core of the matter is really who is being asked to testify and are they presenting a complete picture. Neither the press release or this post answers that question.

By: Dean Democrat

Dean Democrat — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:28:57 +0000

This guy is an embarassment.

Here he is, denying the causes of global warming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXsIQgyn7I

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:12:53 +0000

Good piece of writing, Matt.

Whew! From the sound of this, its some weird reasoning going on! Please not another Michelle Bachmann in the making.

Radical thinking! — KNOWLEDGE KILLS!