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Because my parents married late in life, my grandparents were already quite elderly when I was born. By the time I reached the age of six, they were gone. But not until I was older, and able to see what a special part their grandparents

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Gassing Up In the Feb.-March 1991 issue of Technology Review, Population Institute president Werner Fornos wrote (p. 46) that “… by the end of this century, the air we breathe will contain a third more carbon dioxide than now .…”

As families, doctors and the court’s debate a patient’s right to die, a survey conducted by a Physician’s Management magazine shows the practice of euthanasia is alive and well in the U.S. The July issue of Physician Management reports that nearly one in 10 U.S.

The recent passage of the Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA), sponsored by Senators John C. Danforth and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, creates pressures for the withholding and withdrawing of health care defined as “medical or surgical treatment.” PSDA is seen as a victory by the Concern

Euthanasia Bill in Puerto Rico A bill introduced into the Senate of Puerto Rico by Senator Pena Clos, under Senate project No. 981, proposes to make euthanasia acceptable. An attempt has been made to disguise the intent of the bill by draping it in right-to-life

U.S. Aid Population Control Since the 1960s population control has been “incorporated as a central component of development assistance” by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). AID staff and outside experts promoted “large scale,” internationally funded population projects.1 AID contributed a total of $3.9

For the past 25 years agricultural economist Lester R. Brown, founder and president of the Worldwatch Institute, has been issuing global “report cards” on the Earth’s physical and environmental health. The planet always flunks. The present article will examine Mr. Brown’s dire claims regarding the

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Logic and Math Becoming Extinct? The Washington Time’s March 30, 1990 “Science/Health ” section, in an article headlined “More Species May Be Going Way of The Dinosaurs,” reported, in three consecutive sentences, that: “With an estimated 10 million species of

Picture yourself applying for a loan at the bank. You need some extra cash for a development project — like kitchen remodeling, plumbing repair, or a second family car. “How many children do you have?” asks the bank official. “And how many more do you

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) applied to plants and animals the pessimistic theory which Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) had formulated about human population. Malthus assumed that human numbers increase, if uninhibited, by geometric progression; whereas sustenance increases by the slower arithmetic addition. In consequence, nature checks excessive human