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Popcorn: lies, damn lies, and statistics

Global warming? Recently, the prestigious science magazine Nature published a lengthy article coauthored by 13 noted climatologists that claimed “The observed patterns of temperature change in [the atmosphere away from the earth’s surface] are similar to those predicted by state-of-the-art climate models.”1 The study, which

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The Progesterone/HIV Link

3 July 1996 FDA Deputy CommissionerDr. Lester CrawfordFood & Drug Administration200 C Street, SWWashington, DC  20204 Dear Dr. Crawford, This is to draw you attention to additional information about the possible link between Norplant’s progesterone-based approach to contraception and an increased risk of contracting HIV.

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From the PRI Mailbag

Thanks from Africa Dear Population Research Institute, Peace be with you. I received your letter today with the generous package containing copies of PRI Review. Thank you so much for them I have shared them with friends, supporters and admirers. Francis Muroki Editor, Nairobi, Kenya

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More food to feed us all; condoms but no condos

PRI Staff The hullabaloo in the U.S. press — mostly engineered by Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute — over the alleged inadequacy of world’s grain stocks is mostly hype. It is true that annual world grain consumption has exceeded annual production for some years.

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Popcorn: lies, damn lies, and statistics

The United Nations concluded its second Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, on June 14 in Istanbul. As at all the recent U.N. conferences, delegations from predominantly first world nations attempted to foist a pro-abortion, homosexual rights and environmental agenda onto nations of the developing

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The mouse that roars: Stop This OverPopulation (STOP)

Whatever the Stop This OverPopulation (STOP) web site [http://www.iti.com/iti/stop/stop.html] lacks in expertise and snappy graphics it more than makes up for in misguided energy and enthusiasm. The web site belongs to one of the newer and smaller population organizations but one whose membership seems made

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The State of Humanity: A book in review

Julian Simon is a man with a track record. In 1984 he and the late Herman Kahn, in a book called The Resourceful Earth, made a Series of predictions about the shape of the world to come. The world in the year 2000, they anticipated,

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The Progesterone/HIV Link

3 July 1996 FDA Deputy CommissionerDr. Lester CrawfordFood & Drug Administration200 C Street, SWWashington, DC  20204 Dear Dr. Crawford, This is to draw you attention

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From the PRI Mailbag

Thanks from Africa Dear Population Research Institute, Peace be with you. I received your letter today with the generous package containing copies of PRI Review.

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