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Old 07-14-2009, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Riot
Only if one's depth of understanding about topics scientific is limited to not-very-accurate third-grade-level news media sound bites.
Well that's a very simplistic and condescending way of looking at the information now, but the information was considered gospel when it came out. There was a whole cottage Y2K industry as well as the medical community putting Haitian-Americans under increased scrutiny at the time. I was there and witnessed it so if you want to go into revisionist history go right ahead.
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