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Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change
PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion". Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon. A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."I saw that movie. I think Christopher Walken wuz in it... (So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.) "The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies." Well...doesn't he have a high opinion of himself... Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-07-11 |
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