If there is one certainty that greeted publication of an Environmental Protection Agency-funded study showing that bisphenol A (BPA) was below the level of detection in people fed a high BPA diet, it was that University of Missouri biologist, Dr. Frederick vom Saal, the scientist who first ignited the global panic on BPA, would, sooner or later, denounce it as astoundingly flawed and influenced by industry research.
Last March, in the bowels of global financial panic, it was far from clear that Bank of America would survive and that the stock was dirt cheap.
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In The Wall Street Journal opinions section, a group of 16 scientists, including former professors and chiefs of several atmospheric research institutes, have argued boldly that global warming is no cause for panic, claiming that the mean temperature of the Earth has not changed for more than a decade.
In particular, many analysts warn of panic spreading unchecked through the global financial system, as investors seek to cover themselves against the unforeseeable effects of unguessable events.
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Many will respond to this by saying that the U.S. remains the cleanest dirty shirt, and that a financial panic is likely to be global in which case investors will flock to our debt as a relatively safe haven.
And global economic concerns seem to still give investors panic attacks.
It is no wonder that the U.S. and the U.K. had more than a hint of panic in their responses at recent global economic summits.
The WHO has launched its first ever global alert because of the disease which has created panic in much of Asia, the worst-hit region.
If the world oil supply peaked one day and then fell away sharply, prices would indeed rocket, shortages and panic buying would wreak havoc and a global recession would ensue.
The global food prices crisis led food agencies to hit the panic button.
Panic grips the markets, spreading outward from one global capital and then back inward in a spiraling oscillation of fear and greed and fear again that roams from New York to London to Germany to Japan and back to New York again, whether through Moscow or Calgary or Milan.
The panic is occurring amidst a galloping rate of change in global business that seems to favor rising nations more than mature nations.
The meeting came a day after Asian, European and US markets continued to panic sell despite rate cuts and cash injections by central banks, amid widespread fears of a global recession.
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