The annual flu frenzy is on, and all its attendent vaccination hysterias, and this year the mania is stepped up by the media's frothing over the coming pandemic "bird flu"—a threat that has hoax written all over it.
Well, writing in the British Medical Journal, Peter Doshi explains all the many ways in which the CDC and government PR people inflate the dangers of flu by including anything deaths that are "flu-associated." So while you heard that 36,000 people die every year from something flu-like, it turns out that the real number could be in the hundreds or lower—as low as just a few people.
Also raising questions is a strange CDC pr strategy that specifically calls for bureaucrats to "predict dire outcomes" in order to get people to get the shot—a fact which does not disappoint vaccine manufacturers.
