More Liberal Bias in the Media

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>From the New York Times, a summary review of a new book claiming the
indiginous population of North America was going down anyway.  The title of
the article: "Don't Blame Colombus for all the Indians' Ills".

"Europeans first came to the Western Hemisphere armed with guns, the cross
and, unknowingly, pathogens. Against the alien agents of disease, the
indigenous people never had a chance. Their immune systems were unprepared
to fight smallpox and measles, malaria and yellow fever.
The epidemics that resulted have been well documented. What had not been
clearly recognized until now, though, is that the general health of Native
Americans had apparently been deteriorating for centuries before 1492.
That is the conclusion of a team of anthropologists, economists and
paleopathologists who have completed a wide-ranging study of the health of
people living in the Western Hemisphere in the last 7,000 years."


http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/science/social/29INDI.html

I don't even know where to begin with this....