And it is worse indoors than out. Harvard Medical School has just reversed itself, says another news report. You name it. Notes I have kept for my own medical file provide an education in vacillation. And now the Food and Drug Administration wants to declare mother's milk unsafe.
Bad news pays.
I serve on a foundation board that dispenses large sums for research. Based on this experience, I can assure you that many scholars and experts attempt to secure money for research by producing bad news about our population, our natural resources, and our environment. There is a demonstrable fascination with bad news. It surprised me that I was surprised to hear it. Somehow I had bought, without knowing it, the idea that most politicians were riddled like swiss cheese with corruption and self-serving motives.