The UN has been overestimating the AIDS crisis by about 33 percent, they now admit. And they have been doing it for ideological and financial reasons:
Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.
Keep this in mind every time you hear another Chicken Little global warming report from the UN’s IPCC.
