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Big_D_ Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 11:21 PM

So, everybody with an agenda is out to scare us with falsehoods and exaggerations (also called hyperbole and demagoguery). Fine. That means the effective attitude is the one embraced by Alfred E. Neuman. What? Me Worry? I don't think so. We now face this danger: that we really need to know what's going on, what the raw facts are, and take intelligent action. But we're being conditioned to complacency by endless overreaction.

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First, the Bad News

We in the media rarely lie to you.

But that leaves plenty of room to take things wildly out of context.

That's where most big scare stories come from, like recent headlines about GM foods. GM means "genetically modified," which means scientists add genes, altering the plant's DNA, in this case to make the crop resistant to pests.

Last week, Poland joined seven other European countries in banning cultivation of GM foods.

The politicians acted because headlines screamed about how GM foods caused huge tumors in rats. The pictures of the rats are scary. Some have tumors the size of tennis...

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