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Don't believe the hype

View the article here Related - 50,000 Online Predators 04/26/2008 Despite being the safest and healthiest humans to have lived, we allow 'experts' to scare us witless, says Dan Gardner. 'Recent figures suggest some 50,000 pedophiles are prowling the internet at any one time," says the website of Innocence in Danger, a non-government organisation based in Switzerland. No source is cited for the claim, which appears under the headline "Some terryfying [sic] statistics". It is indeed a terrifying statistic. It is also well-travelled. It has been cited in Britain, Canada, the US, and points beyond. Like a new strain of the flu, it has spread from newspaper articles to TV reports to public speakers, websites, blogs, and countless conversations of frightened parents...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).