Anyone who didn't know that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is in trouble would have been alerted by the opening sentences of this press release:
... Following the meeting [the CERN] Council issued this statement:
Confidence in CERN – in its management, in its ability to deliver, and in its future – was the key theme of the meeting. Confidence in CERN's technical ability was underlined in the report of the External Review Committee (ERC) presented to Council, ...
The heading of the release is superbly dreary:
CERN Council takes important steps forward
and was presumably designed to repel the inquisitive.
Steven Milloy has an item about the 30th anniversary of the criminal US ban on DDT, which has had such dire consequences for millions who will never be known to the do-gooders who preened themselves on this victory.
DDT use has virtually disappeared. Many countries blindly followed the U.S. ban or succumbed to activist pressure.
But there are other battles still to be fought in this war. Milloy reports that:
Activists recently succeeded in pushing a virtual world-wide ban in the form of a United Nations’ treaty signed by the Bush administration, but not yet ratified by the Senate.
Keith Windschuttle has been ploughing the anti-Grapes of Wrath furrow for some
time. Just found this on his site The Sydney Line ("Since the 1920s, Sydney
has generated a way of thinking that amounts to a distinctive intellectual
tradition"... ) from 1999.
