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Old 04-30-2009, 01:05 AM   #1
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Default Creative journalism 101 - or "How Swine Flu became man-made"
So I am reading this MarketWatch article... and I think it's the regular doom-and-gloom, "sell so that we can buy cheap" article. Until I come to the following paragraph.

As if we didn't have enough on our minds, the specter of a global pandemic adds another layer of uncertainty to an already complicated equation.

-> Ok.

The World Bank estimated last year that an influenza pandemic could cost $3 trillion, trigger a 5% drop in global GDP and lead to 70 million deaths.

-> Gloomy, but a (remote) possibility.

As we hope for the best, risk management requires that we respect potential contagion,..

-> Ok, I'll give them that...

particularly if the specter that the virus was manmade seeps into the mainstream mindset.

-> WHAAA?

Wtf dudes? Why don't you just write: "So there's a rumor going around.." Of course there is a rumor going around. You started it, *******!
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Old 04-30-2009, 01:20 AM   #2
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I'll bet the Taliban claims they made the virus and that it is part of an attack against the United States.
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Old 04-30-2009, 01:36 AM   #3
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I'll bet the Taliban claims they made the virus and that it is part of an attack against the United States.
How about the Mexican drug cartels? Their "business" generates more revenue than the entire GDP of Mexico itself so I'm sure that funding such a thing would be no sweat. Couple that with the fact that basic engineering of viruses can be accomplished with simple molecular techniques that any biology undergrad learns in lab and viola, conspiracy.
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Old 04-30-2009, 01:42 AM   #4
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I'll bet the Taliban claims they made the virus and that it is part of an attack against the United States.
Good call especially since some Muslims do not eat pork!
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Old 04-30-2009, 05:00 PM   #5
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Good call especially since some Muslims do not eat pork!
Careful, serbsoilder is going to come in here any second and call you an infidel!
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Old 04-30-2009, 05:04 PM   #6
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you guys watch far too much television
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Old 04-30-2009, 10:15 PM   #7
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you guys watch far too much television
Or... or... you just dont watch enough!
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