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LOU DOLINAR: Our Real Gulf Disaster. Like his Katrina expose, it?s a must-read. ?There was a broa?

By Glenn Reynolds

LOU DOLINAR: Our Real Gulf Disaster. Like his Katrina expose, it’s a must-read. “There was a broad-based failure on the part of the media, the science establishment, and the federal bureaucracy. With the nation and its leaders looking for facts, we got instead a massive plume of apocalyptic mythology and threats of Armageddon. In the Gulf, this misinformation has cost jobs, lowered property values, and devastated tourism, and its effects on national policy could be deep and far-reaching.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).