Michael Fumento
Factual · Powerful · Original · Iconoclastic
Advice & Dissent: 2009
By yet another measure, there's nothing extraordinary about swine flu except the way a virus is being exploited for political reasons and to shore up sagging circulation figures. Just-released CDC figures indicate all of 36 swine flu deaths in children under age five. How does…Read More
"U-Md. Reports Dozens of Flu Cases," declared the Washington Post headline. But while the story began, "The University of Maryland has 64 cases of suspected swine flu" it concludes, "The U-Md. health center is not testing students to confirm H1N1 infection, because the course of…Read More
Gee, and I thought August was supposed to be the slow news month. "Joe Wilson is racist!" Why? Pres. Obama is black. Well, in the U.S. he is. That's a result of slave laws and the so-called "one drop rule." In any other country he'd be called mulatto - as white as he is black…Read More
From the CDC: Here we see a graph line of doctor visits for people claiming to have "flu-like" symptoms. It's practically going straight up. But here we see hospitalizations for confirmed cases of influenza broken down by age categories. The lines are essentially flat. Finally…Read More
While researching the World Health Organization's campaign to grotesquely exaggerate the swine flu threat, I came across this little gem from a 1990 edition of the New York Times. "Eight to ten million people around the world are now infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and…Read More
Sorry, nobody's perfect. In a previous blog I stated: Here we see a graph line of doctor visits for people claiming to have "flu-like" symptoms. It's practically going straight up. Right. Then I added, "But here we see hospitalizations for confirmed cases of influenza broken down…Read More
"Mr. Fumento: "Somehow you think you know better than everybody else because of your publications and media appearances. Which he got from my website. I never even heard of you before today. As much as it hurts your incredible ego, neither have the vast majority of people." My…Read More
The current issue of Time magazine informs us Only universal health care - especially as proposed by the Obama administration - could have prevented this catastrophe! Except that probably few of those students actually have the flu, but rather those ubiquitous "flu-like symptoms…Read More
Or so she says in her Newsweek essay "Surviving Swine Flu." And she admits it actually hasn't been diagnosed. But it's definitely swine flu. No doubt she's coughing, sneezing, and has an incredible urge to roll around in the mud. She is, she says, "an early victim of what will…Read More
Okay, this time they've gone too far! Now, says the Washington Post, environmentalists are trying to wipe out plush toilet paper! They say that's because plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made from older trees - though not what's defined as "old growth" by any means. And older…Read More
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