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[Ubiquitous]

The Boston Globe has an alarming report on a new mental disorder:

Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was
admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children's
Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water.
Worried about drought related to climate change, the
young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of
people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case
up as the first known instance of "climate change delusion."

Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient
unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several
more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders
focused on climate change, as well as children who are
having nightmares about global-warming-related natural
disasters.

Can there be any doubt that the media--including the Boston Globe--are
a major risk factor for climate change delusion, what with all their
alarmist reports about global warming?

Sure, it's possible that these kids were nuts anyway, and that even if
they'd never heard of global warming, their psychosis would have
expressed itself in a different form: Bush derangement syndrome, say,
or post-traumatic slavery disorder (another story broken by the Globe).

But as long as we don't know, shouldn't journalists declare an immediate
moratorium on global-warming stories--just to be safe?

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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.

[The Last Viking]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... Ubiquitous wrote:
:> The Boston Globe has an alarming report on a new mental disorder:

[..]
:> But as long as we don't know, shouldn't journalists declare an immediate

:> moratorium on global-warming stories--just to be safe?

Yeah, let's all dig our heads down into the sand like some scared
Australian birds. No, in fact, let's all put our heaters on max and open
our windows to help make some global warming. It has been exceptionally
cold here where I live (Tromsų, Norway) these past month and we could
really use some global warming here right now!

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