Apathy Curve: We're All Gonna Die (Yet Again)

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

We're All Gonna Die (Yet Again)

Yes, it's the dreaded bird flu again. Despite its utter flop as the edgy new mort du jour, the doomsayers continue to squeeze utter crap out of baseless statistics in a last-ditch effort to terrorize the gullible:

To forecast how big the global death toll might be, Professor Christopher Murray and his team looked back at the events of the 1918-20 Spanish flu pandemic.

When they extrapolated the mortality rates then to the global population of 2004, they estimated 51-81 million people could die from a similarly severe outbreak and gave a median estimate of 62 million.

And maybe "dino flu" wiped out the dinosaurs.

(Hey, I could get a grant for that...)

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