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...could understand if WebMD had a broad application based on health concerns,” he said. “But one just based on swine flu seems a little alarmist to me.” Komaroff dismissed criticisms that the H1N1 outbreak has been overblown in the media...
...urban legend to throw police off their trail. Plenty of parents call poison centers to report concerns related to Halloween, says Gail Banach, director of education at the Upstate New York Poison Center in Syracuse, but overall complaints don't spike. And other experts agree that the concern is overblown. In 1985, Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, studied media reports going back to 1958 and found no evidence "that any child has ever been killed or seriously harmed by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating...
...Have people turned away from delis a little for health reasons? Of course, absolutely. And I think a lot of that is overblown. You know, look, are you going to eat this food every single day, three meals a day? No, that's not advisable, just as it isn't advisable to eat barbecue three meals a day, every day. But if you have it once a week or, you know, a couple times a week and you vary it up and you don't eat tremendous amounts of it and you mix in with a lifestyle that is rich...
...evidence suggests not. “Global warming caused by human beings is real but overblown because it has been over-forecast by our computer models,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finds that the United Nations’s computer models overestimated warming roughly by a factor of three. “The warming of the twenty-first century is going to be modest and frankly there?...
That said, we do not wish Harvard’s reputation to be tarnished more than it already has been in the unfortunate aftermath of this overblown spectacle. Should Watson return to Harvard for future games or other activities, we hope that she finds the welcome environment we know and love. And at least at Harvard, no one has to worry about those nosy reporters from the Prophet or the Quibbler...