At least the Global Warming Crisis has replaced the "Bird Flu Pandemic" CRISIS......and it's a diversion from the media keeping a scoreboard for the enemy in Iraq.
IMO the epitome of scietific/political/intilectual expertise ditraibe/hype/ was the Y2K "end of the world as we know it" CRISIS.
What was the CRISIS in the early 70s that was promoting the puschase of Silver to offset the resulting looming economic colapse???
We should start a pool on the what the next human eliminating CRISIS might be.
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