More Liberal Bias in the Media

[MalignD at aol.com]

jbridel1 at rogers.com:

<<From the New York Times, a summary review of a new book claiming the 
indigenous population of North America was going down anyway.  The title of 
he article: "Don't Blame Columbus 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."

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

Nor do I.  For starters, what precisely are you trying to say?  By "liberal 
bias" do you mean bias by or against liberals?  In either case, on what basis?

The article appeared in today's Science Times.  It is a report of a study and 
a book based on that study with contributions from some 50 scientists and 
scholars.  The four cited in the article were from four different 
Universities OSU, Emory, U of Arkansas and Johns Hopkins.

Is it your position that these far-flung fifty are part of a cabal?  That the 
Times should be condemned for reporting and reviewing?  That the finding most 
discussed in the article--that there was a general decline in health over 
time in various parts of pre-Columbian North America, i.e., a decline not 
attributable to diseases transported by Europeans (although the role of 
Europeans in spreading disease in NA is not disputed)--is a scientific ruse 
intended to get the white man off the hook five hundred years later?

Perhaps, for those curious, you might try to begin.