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[Misha Gale-Sinex <mgs2369@attbi.com>]

Howdy, all--

Claude observed:

> Who Knew  ... ;-)

:^D

On this item from the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

> On the heels of the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the 
> Competitive Enterprise Institute is releasing its newest book on the 
> state of our planet, Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the 
> Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death 
> (Prima Publishing 2002).Ý In it, experts from around the world 
> debunk many of the eco-myths that threaten economic progress and the 
> environment itself.

...here are a few bits about CEI from the Center for Media and 
Democracy (the publishers of /PR Watch/.

http://www.prwatch.org/improp/cei.html
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q2/fearnotfacts.html
http://www.prwatch.org/documents/clear_release.html
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/June_2001.html (Scroll down to "CEI uses 
Stossel...")

As for those wacky Debunking Experts, who are SOOOO intent on 
plucking the fruits of Economic Progress for (from?) us all, and 
protecting us (from what?), you will enjoy Sheldon Rampton's and John 
Stauber's /Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science 
and Gambles with Your Future/.

http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html

I know you all can read that book blurb with all appropriate/due 
critical acumen ("No study has ever proven the existence of Gaia, 
gravity, nor the female orgasm!!")...but just thought some of you 
might enjoy a crash course in counter-spin from some of the most 
rollicking Debunker dunkers on the planet.


peace
mish