IN LAST week’s Â鶹´«Ã½ (15 October, p 21), Debora MacKenzie observed that internet pundits follow the objects of their obsession far more, well, obsessively than journalists and even scientists can ever hope to – thus providing sometimes indispensable alerts for us all.
The very day the article was sent off to be printed, MacKenzie got better proof of this than she could have made up. Â鶹´«Ã½‘s website ran a separate piece by her saying no one had yet found a healthy migrating wild bird carrying and shedding the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus. This is a crucial and…
