Case Studies in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism **With
all these pieces keep aware of ‘wolf-crying.’ This is the idea
of impending gloom and doom that we noted with the K/T event and
also in the Bangladesh case. When are writers just stating the
facts and when are they trying to stir up fear? **After you’ve
looked through the 1918 papers go back and look at what Surgeon-
General Braisted of the U.S. Navy says on January 5th in the
British Medical Journal; Do you agree with me that his
punishment should have been to actually eat his words, all of
them, every single time they occurred in print? **Pay attention
to the debate on the closing of public facilities in response to
the epidemic. Why do you think school’s are always at the center
of this debate? What are the advantages of keeping school’s and
public theatres open? **Look at the Journal of the American
Medical Association Influenza report (December 21, 1918). What
are some of the recommendations the writer’s suggest for dealing
with the epidemic?