this article from URL has been sent to you by khare URL excellent evidence of the herd just imagine if the anonymous noise injected into our world newsphere noosphere was say a fraudulent story that a stock accounting scandal had been accused and the evildoers were shorting oh wait that happened an unemployed orange county student took down emulex enjoy rohit khare URL stop those presses blonds it seems will survive after all october NUMBER NUMBER by lawrence k altman apparently it fell into the category too good to check last friday several british newspapers reported that the world health organization had found in a study that blonds would become extinct within NUMBER years because blondness was caused by a recessive gene that was dying out the reports were repeated on friday by anchors for the abc news program good morning america and on saturday by cnn there was only one problem the health organization said in a statement yesterday that it never reported that blonds would become extinct and it had never done a study on the subject w h o has no knowledge of how these news reports originated said the organization an agency of the united nations based in geneva but would like to stress that we have no opinion of the future existence of blonds all the news reports in britain and the united states cited a study from the world health organization a blonde shell study as the daily star of london put it but none reported any scientific details from the study or the names of the scientists who conducted it on good morning america charles gibson began a conversation with his co anchor diane sawyer by saying there s a study from the world health organization this is for real that blonds are an endangered species women and men with blond hair eyebrows and blue eyes natural blonds they say will vanish from the face of the earth within NUMBER years because it is not as strong a gene as brunets ms sawyer said she was somewhat of a natural blonde jeffrey schneider a spokesman for abc news said the anchors got the information from an abc producer in london who said he had read it in a british newspaper in london the sun and the express both reported that unnamed scientists said blonds would survive longest in scandinavia where they are most concentrated and expected the last true blond to hail from finland the british accounts were replete with the views of bleached blonds who said hairdressers would never allow blondness to become extinct and doctors who said that rare genes would pop up to keep natural blonds from becoming an endangered species journalists in london said last night that the source of the reports was probably one of several european news agencies that are used by the british press but it remained unclear which one tim hall a night news editor at the daily mail said the report was probably distributed by the press association britain s domestic news agency several papers picked it up he said but charlotte gapper night editor at the press association said that although it had considered running the report on sept NUMBER it had decided not to after talking to the world health organization we didn t do that story because we made an inquiry to the world health organization first she said they told us that report was two years old and had been covered at the time they said it had been picked up again that day by a german news agency she added that she did not know which agency the organization was referring to dr ray white a geneticist at the university of california at san francisco said that the disappearance of a gene for blond hair sounds patently incorrect URL how to advertise for information on advertising in e mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with the new york times on the web please contact onlinesales URL or visit our online media kit at URL for general information about URL write to help URL copyright NUMBER the new york times company 