Remember the H1N1 uproar two years ago — schools and offices closed in Mexico, pigs slaughtered in Egypt, ERs swamped in the U.S., $10 billion spent on “influenza preparedness” worldwide.
Guess what? Some reports indicate that the large pharmaceutical companies may have influenced the World Health Organization to overstate the danger of a pandemic.
Imagine that.
The New York Review of Books has the story.