Posted by
Catmman on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:00:46 AM
The United Nations seriously inflated the number of worldwide AIDS cases
according to this story.
They missed the estimate by over six million cases! Here's an excerpt:
LONDON (AP) - The number of AIDS cases worldwide fell by more than 6 million cases this year to 33.2 million, global health officials said Tuesday. But the decline is mostly on paper.
Previous estimates were largely inflated, and the new numbers are the result of a new methodology. They show AIDS cases in 2007 were down from almost 39.5 million last year, according to the World Health Organization and the United Nations AIDS agency.
Although the decline is largely due to revised numbers, U.N. officials said it still showed the AIDS pandemic was losing momentum.
And here's the kicker for inflating the numbers - money:
Chin and Halperin said AIDS officials may be reluctant to admit that fewer people are infected because it may translate into less funding for efforts to fight the disease.
And an even more illuminating quote from the article:
"On the one hand, it would be a mistake to radically decrease funding for HIV," Halperin said. "But on the other hand, why not put more money into family planning or climate change?"
Here we have direct evidence of a smoking gun. The UN is caught with their pants down (no pun intended) on inflating the number of AIDS cases worldwide. Why inflate the numbers? It translates to more money.
With this being said, is there any reason to believe they aren't doing the same exact thing when it comes to climate change?
It's all about the Benjamins folks.