http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/the_united_nations_is_
always_r.html
Just a few days later the United Nations released a new report in which
it confessed its previous estimate of AIDS cases worldwide was inflated
by more than 6 million sick people. In India alone, the number of AIDS
patients estimated by the United Nations dropped by more than half, from
6 million to 3 million.
"They've finally got caught with their pants down," Dr. Jim Chin, a
clinical professor of epidemiology at the University of California at
Berkeley and a former staffer at the World Health Organization, told The
Associated Press.
The old, false U.N. numbers were the result of an obviously bad
methodology, especially in India; prevalence rates among women in urban
clinics were imputed to the population as a whole, thereby oversampling
AIDS-prone prostitutes, addicts and people with multiple sexual
partners.
So why did the U.N. scientists go with the bad data? According to
professor Chin, U.N. officials were reluctant to admit fewer people were
infected because that might translate into less funding to fight AIDS,
which continues to devastate millions worldwide.
They fudged the data in order to inspire the masses to good actions, in
other words.
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Well cover me with gravy and call me mashed potatoes! The UN fudged the
numbers? Who woulda guessed!
--
Fred Stone
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