Wed, 14 May 2003

How to Manufacture a Crisis

Wow! Here it is, in all it's glory - the political scientific establishment raising the bar to start a new crisis:

Red Flag Raised Over Normal Blood Pressure[CNN]

This is what's been happening in the 'obesity crisis' for the last twenty years or so: they change the definition of 'obese' then wait a couple of years and announce that "fat has exploded accross America". So you can expect to see, about 2005, a new series of reports on the 'crisis' of high blood pressure reaching 'epidemic' proportions.

Just watch ....

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