What swine flu epidemic?
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued an alarming report on swine flu last month. A typical front-page article about it began, “Swine flu could infect half the U.S. population this fall and winter, hospitalizing up to 1.8 million people and causing as many as 90,000 deaths.” But the council’s “plausible scenario” involving those alarming figures is based on three main assumptions, all of which must be valid or the house of cards comes tumbling down. Yet all three fly in the face of science.
