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Mad Hype Disease
by Glenn Woiceshyn
[The following letter was published in the Globe and Mail (pg. B2) on Sep/01/97.]
Dear Editor,
Re: "Mad Hype Disease"--by Terence Corcoran--Aug/27/97--The Globe and Mail
What Terence Corcoran calls "mad hype disease" -- i.e., scaremongering
via junk science by pressure groups lusting after political power -- is a product
of two trends, one positive, the other negative.
The positive trend is that statism has finally become a dirty word (thanks to the
death and destruction it yielded during our century). Political freedom is more popular
these days, which has forced leftists to deploy desperate means--junk science and
scaremongering--to seize power to rule and loot us.
The negative trend is the intellectual bankruptcy brought about by modern intellectuals
who preached that we can't be certain of anything--that we should go by feelings,
not reason. The result is our present age of emotionalism or "mad hype disease."
The only cure for this disease is a return to reason and freedom--to facts, logic,
objectivity, the scientific method and the full protection of individual rights.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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