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SARS Virus Mutating Rapidly
More Junk Science. Soon it won't be a corona virus at all ! Then nothing will link all these "cases of SARS" into any recognisable specific disease.


Guard Against Panic --UK Telegraph Editorial
" We should guard against the panic that took hold following first cases of new variant CJD, when bad science collaborated with bad journalism to forecast millions of fatalities."

I'm not sure what is worse: germs or paranoia
"Half the time, I think we're wildly overreacting, and half the time I think we're doing the right thing," says a doctor

SARS Fears Driven By Other Factors
"Anxieties surrounding epidemics are always several things at once," says Priscilla Wald, a Duke University English professor.


Canadian Official Admits SARS Cause Doubts
21st April Finally, an admission of what SarsTravel.com readers have known for a week: "We have only identified the coronavirus in 50 per cent of the people being treated for SARS," Canadian health spokesman Paul Gully told Montreal's La Presse. So, when will they cut their SARS figures in half? Never. The hype machine needs those extra "SARS cases."

SARS Numbers Game A Confused Mess
Researchers have been unable to determine why SARS has caused more deaths in places like Canada and Hong Kong than in the United States. They say it's too much of a generalization to state a worldwide death rate.


Questions raised over veracity of SARS in India
21st April Times of India Some virologists in India are pressing for a scientific review of the results of SARS tests as they feel Indian Council of Medical Research has not disclosed all details.


Scuffles as HIV, West Nile
Protest Over SARS Hype
21st April WASHINGTON, DC --Scuffles broke out after a protest Sunday by viruses --aimed at countering SARS dominance
of media coverage. SATIRE -BECAUSE WE NEED TO LAUGH !


Tricks of the Pharma Trade
April 20 by Jon Rappoport
So much standard science has been cast by the side of the road in the push to proclaim a coronavirus the cause of SARS, you have call it criminal negligence. And if medical honchos are willing to live with that, it's only one step to consider that there are OTHER people who are willing to USE that negligence.


SARS Bubble Implodes
As The Sewage Hits The Fan!
18th April by Fintan Dunne

Unlike other countries, the US has never identified the 'probable' SARS cases within the large 'suspected' group. Now we know why. The CDC revealed yesterday that of 208 'suspects' only 35 cases were 'probable' SARS. So when do severe respiratory symptoms not fulfill the criteria for SARS? When they are not severe at all. Or never were.

Prediction: the mortality from this "deadly" SARS epidemic in the USA out of the existing caseload is likely to be zero. Big, fat Zero. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the sewage just hit the fan......MORE

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Labs Line Up To Run Your Life
April 17 by Jon Rappoport
A recent article written in Canada about Dr. Frank Plummer's major WHO lab reveals how global research is being done on SARS It is very illuminating. First of all, scientists from all corners of the world appear to be in agreement that, after SARS, there will be more outbreaks. It is inevitable. Things will get much worse. There will be a Big One.


SARS Monkey Business
April 16 Monkey research on SARS is simply science by press conference. And it's completely outrageous. Equally outrageous is the fact that you are reading this analysis here and not hearing it from the howls of angry researchers from Newfoundland to Tierra del Fuego who are fighting mad that the scientific method has been grossly shortchanged....


The Circular Logic of SARS for Wimps
SarsTravel.com April 16, 2003
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is the mother
of all circular logic. A self-defining merry-go-round.
Reference is everywhere to the "SARS virus." The term is a dud. Anyway, SARS is for wimps. The kind of wimps faithless consumerism thrives on....


SARS Threat is Overblown
When 3,000 people die each year in Hong Kong from "regular" pneumonia, why are the city's residents in near panic over SARS? --writes a Hong Kong journalist.


Answers for the SARS Bewildered
   Everywhere in the world, every day, people get sick and people die. The question is, in this case, are they getting sick because we have a new disease on our hands, or are they dying for the same old reasons....


The Age of Outbreaks
Just as the public has been conditioned
to everything that goes with the so-called war
on terrorism, the public is also being conditioned
to everything that goes with the war on germs.



Atypical Pneumonia --Is it Clinically Valid?
The term "atypical pneumonia" has been bandied about a great deal in the medical literature, especially lately. Unfortunately, the phrase is difficult to define--and even with definition, it lacks usefulness. I submit that it has no meaning in current medical practice and that we should get rid of it.


WHO Scientist Confirms --SARS is Full of Fake Research!
April 14. Frank Plummer directs one of the WHO labs in Canada. He has gone on the record with his findings about SARS. Plummer admits that never more than 60 percent of the SARS patients tested at the lab showed the coronavirus that is supposed to be the cause of SARS. That DEFINITELY won't cut it. Plummer's findings completely undercut the rush to judgment about SARS....


The Bug Hunter
of Winnipeg
You've never heard of him,
but thanks to AIDS and SARS,
Dr. Frank Plummer has become
a celebrity in the medical
research world.
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SARS Not Caused By Coronavirus !
-WHO EXPERT DISPUTES CAUSE OF SARS
The director of one of the WHO's global network of 11 laboratories investigating SARS says coronavirus is unlikely to be the causative agent. "Of course, the case definition of SARS is a little loose," said Plummer, "and we are finding some of the best-characterized cases are negative. ...the amounts of virus we are finding, when we find it, are very small –only detectable by very sensitive PCR."


The Sloppy Science of Sars
   You have already heard, and you will continue to hear, about airline passengers who spread SARS from country to country as they flew. This sounds so convincing to the public it's tantamount to hypnosis. Little maps and charts and graphics create trances. Let me now show how, with a few little tricks, you can do it too.....


Critics debate media attitude in reporting SARS
Critics have begun wondering if the media is not fanning the flames and reporting the epidemic out of proportion to its importance. "Most of the reporters don't know enough about the issues that they're reporting," said Chang-chuan, the dean of National Taiwan University's College of Public Health. Chan supports the idea that every newspaper should be equipped with its own "think tank," and believes journalists should always be skeptical of any information they receive......



S.A.R.S.: SIMPLY ANOTHER RIDICULOUS SCAM
Mary Starrett NewsWithViews.com Those photos of Asians wearing masks have been effective, haven't they? By now you probably wring your hands every time someone near you sneezes. Maybe you've canceled a plane trip or decided to stay away from large groups of people…just to be safe. Good thinking. Unless of course, like me, your THERE'S MORE TO THIS THAN WE'RE BEING TOLD radar went off the very first time you heard about this "mysterious" disease...



THE SARS MEME:
Viruses of the Mind
by Richard Dawkins
   "A beautiful child close to me, six and the apple of her father's eye, believes that Thomas the Tank Engine really exists. She believes in Father Christmas, and when she grows up her ambition is to be a tooth fairy. She and her school-friends believe the solemn word of respected adults that tooth fairies and Father Christmas really exist. This little girl is of an age to believe whatever you tell her. If you tell her about witches changing princes into frogs she will believe you. If you tell her that bad children roast forever in hell she will have nightmares. "



Fear Is The Key
Barry Glassner Professor of Sociology Ph.D. Washington University
   Q: Fear is a basic instinct in animals, including our own species. How does it differ between, for instance, a rabbit who hears a noise and hops away and the way a human processes and reacts to fear? BARRY GLASSNER: Well, the first difference that comes to my mind is the rabbit probably doesn't watch Fox News Channel.


SARS Makes For Poor Biowar Candidate
"The sequencing information will show us right away where it came from," said Dr. Baker of Loyola. "I think it's highly unlikely that anybody could have created this virus."


Lets use logic, not panic
   Discussion from China Peple's Daily Forum
   "Statisically speaking, you are more likely to get normal pneumonia than you are of getting SARS pneumonia. You are more likely to DIE from normal pneumonia than from getting SARS pneumonia. Since the outbreak of SARS, more people have gotten normal pneumonia than SARS pneumonia. More people have died from normal pneumonia than SARS pneumonia. The media has blown up this entire issue. They should me made to pay for the economic losses due to thier misrepresentation about the likeliness of getting SARS. Use logic people, not panic."

DAMM LIES AND STATISTICS:
  Ordinary Pneumonia Deaths Worldwide Yearly: FOUR MILLION   Source1 2
  SARS Pneumonia Deaths Worldwide in 2003: 258
  Ordinary Pneumonia Cases Yearly in USA: HALF A MILLION   Source
  SARS Pneumonia Cases in 2003 in USA: 33   Source


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