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Antibiotechnology activists were infuriated with Strobel's actions and with his mild punishment. They claim that scientists could unwittingly unleash destructive mutant bacteria into the environment, a worry that is considered alarmist by most scientists. Says Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington lobbyist: "We cannot expect the scientists to police themselves. They feel they are above...
...Administration reached its policy regarding testing, Washington's principal weapon in the battle against AIDS had been fear. Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen has likened the disease to the black death, while Koop has preached about the dangers of AIDS for every sexually active heterosexual. Such alarmist warnings have caused an epidemic of anxiety, and many scientists and researchers are claiming that such widespread fears are unfounded. Koop admits that his dire statements about AIDS are not universally accepted in the medical community. But, he argues, "as a health officer, I have to say that. If I were...
...units of blood was contaminated. The current risk of AIDS contamination is one in every 250,000 units of donated blood. Says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph: "To give the impression that everybody who has ever received a transfusion should get themselves tested is both alarmist and has no basis in probability." But CDC officials note that recipients are the only risk group that has not so far been specifically advised to seek testing...
That view is probably alarmist. Though some economists have begun to talk about the possibility of a recession, most experts expect growth to pick up in the second half of the year. They think that the 65% drop in oil prices since late last year, which has devastated the huge U.S. petroleum industry, will soon begin to stimulate investment by other businesses and increased spending by consumers. The fall in the value of the dollar, a 26% decline against major world currencies since early 1985, is expected to help reduce the trade deficit by making imports more expensive and American...
...Orleans, Reagan pledged that the U.S. "would hold Mr. Gaddafi responsible for his actions." The Sidra skirmish showed that the U.S. would indeed strike back in a carefully calibrated way when given a clean and easy target. But such occasional shootouts, when accompanied by alarmist rhetoric but no sustained diplomatic initiatives, in the Middle East or elsewhere, are hardly a foundation for an effective policy, especially against terrorism. Nor does the battle of Sidra provide much of a guide for retaliation when the source of the threat is not as easy to identify as a speeding patrol boat...