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I said they weren't right all the time.

Are you contending that if Philip Morris agrees with something, then it's automatically untrue? Perhaps if Philip Morris funded a study confirming gravity's effects, you'd conclude you could walk on the ceiling?

You seem to have established junkscience.com as politically incorrect. You've said little about whether they're factually incorrect.

BTW:

Why not check your references next time.

A your link is from a web site by a long-time anti cell phone activist who insists that cell phones cause illness.

At least I think so -- this is my first time playing "check your references" :)

In the case of the "Hot Zone" - the Pearl River Delta - Child labour is not the issue. Kids are at school for the most part. The workers are migrants from the poor inner provinces and are adults, and are mainly women.

There are definitely cases of poor working conditions but the deal is usually good enough that the workers stay for a few years and then return to their province as the richest person in town.

Child labour is certainly an issue in other countries, but with a huge surplus of adult labour China does not need to use children. With the one child policy such children are more likely to be spoilt rotten... the Little Emperor Syndrome is well known in the region. Little (boys usually) kids doted on by their four grandparents as the only offspring carrying on the tradition of ancestor worship.... you think they'd be sent to work in a sweat shop factory?

"...According to Nicholas Lardy, an expert on the mainland economy, "The official data overstate the pace of economic expansion ... if for no other reason than over the past decade there has been an extraordinary buildup of unsold and unsaleable inventories. While these inventories are counted as part of output and thus contribute to growth of gross domestic product, they are not utilized for either consumption or fixed investment. The real resources that have gone into the production of these goods has been largely wasted."

Take one example. "On average from 1990 to 1998, annual additions to inventories absorbed 42 percent of incremental output," much of it reflecting "the continued production of low-quality goods for which there is little or no demand." Considering the mainland's padded statistics, one must be very skeptical.

The economic rot, though, is much wider. The mainland banking system is crisis-ridden and corrupt. In an open political system, it would in all probability have collapsed by now, considering that half to two-thirds of all bank loans are nonperforming and growing.

High-level linkages between the perpetrators of such fraud, however, result in disinterested investigations. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, "China Construction Bank has been involved in financing the information-technology business activities of President Jiang Zemin's eldest son." Still, banks like these control US$900 billion in individual savings. If people knew what was going on, there would be an instant run on the banks, which would bring the Chinese economy to a halt."

From: China dream alive and kicking?"

"I believe that most of the problems that people associate with globalism," writes Soros, "including the penetration of market values into areas where they do not traditionally belong, can be attributed to these phenomena."

Just to let those who aren't aware of it, Soros is not an actual capitalist. Don't take his views as those of a repentant capitalist and free marketeer.

Liar! Imposter. You will die next to your kike buddies.

Also, the Nazi Party was quite left-wing. I would know, because I agree with a lot of their economic policies!

http://www.adl.org/presrele/IslME_62/3698_62.asp
http://www.newaus.com.au/us162nader.html

• The Greenhouse Hoax...Noel Mc Donald
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Greenhouse Syndrome: Just Hot Air?
• Global Warming: A Political, Economic and Scientific Backgrounder
• A BRIEFING ON GLOBAL WARMING, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
• There are many questions regarding Global Warming
• Global warming has failed experimental test.
• GLOBAL WARMING: INVENTING AN APOCALYPSE
• Home Page of John Daly, author of The Greenhouse Trap.
• John L. Daly Profile of a Greenhouse `Dissenter'

an article from the Wall Street Journal at junkscience.com. I like the last paragraph of the article that says: "Car accidents resulting from using a cell phone while driving are 'much more of a problem at this point' than radio emissions".

Another good one from junkscience.com

Yes, it was in the 1970s that a new ice age was considered possible. So Earth was 10 years behind the global warming hoopla.