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Posner argues that his background as a lawyer and an economist need not disqualify him from opining on the “strangelet” question. Fifty pages of footnotes attest to the fact that Posner is no scientific dilettante. But is he an alarmist...
...Baltimore Sun last week, Lieut. General James Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, warned that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have put in "grave danger" his force's ability to fulfill other Pentagon missions or help grapple with domestic emergencies. "I do not wish to sound alarmist," wrote Helmly, who won a Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam. "I do wish to send a clear, distinctive signal of deepening concern." Helmly's memo split the Pentagon into two camps--those who praised Helmly's candor and courage, and those who found the memo's tone, and its appearance...
...Riversleigh chronicles a collapse in Australia's mammal diversity in the past 25 million years. Archer warns that if humans don't stop abusing the earth and "incarcerating our precious biotas in reserves that are demonstrably too small to sustain them," we could jeopardize our survival as a species. Alarmist? Keep in mind, he suggests, that the average mammalian species hangs around for 5 million years; Homo sapiens has been around for some 300,000 years. "We haven't been tested...
...definition of marriage is hardly under assault. Those individuals ostensibly threatening it only want fairness under the law—including the social security benefits, hospital visitation rights, equal tax benefits and other privileges of marriage that heterosexual partners enjoy. The religious right who peddle such alarmist lies would have you believe that if marriage were open to homosexual unions, scores of men across America would divorce their wives—and vice versa. The Bush administration’s proclamation is an embarrassing piece of partisan rhetoric, demonstrating nothing except that Bush’s marriage to the extreme...
...Some people might say I’m being too alarmist on these matters, but I don’t think so,” Vest said. “I care about these things not just because of hoping for the interests of colleges and universities, but because I think it is a general interest for our country...