remember when brady westwater checked every footnote in "ecology of fear" and wrote a 23-page article highlighting davis' inaccurate and fabricated "facts?" that was funny.
here is a link to whole thing by westwater calling mike davis, Purposefully Misleading Liarlink
my favorite was the cayote situation. he was right on that one also.
"But the real silliness begins with his claims that L.A.'s population is panicking due to the threat of man-eating coyotes and mountain lions. The only problem is that in over 200 years of history there have been ZERO people killed, much less eaten, by either a coyote or a mountain lion in the city of Los Angeles. Even when one takes in the entire Southern half of the state, there is exactly one death from each animal in 200 years. This warrants a chapter? When one considers that over 100 people every year are killed when their cars hit a deer, or that alligators have killed far more people in Florida in a single year than all coyote and mountain lion attacks in California in 200 years, it becomes obvious that Davis has gone over the edge from Fantasy Land into Paranoia Land."
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here is mr. davis on
las vegas. circa 1994. semi related to mo's dubai, which, mike davis zero-in as he would.
and one more on malibu. originally published in la weekly as i remember, after the fires in 90's with a slightly different title,burn malibu burn.
remember when brady westwater checked every footnote in "ecology of fear" and wrote a 23-page article highlighting davis' inaccurate and fabricated "facts?" that was funny.
here is a link to whole thing by westwater calling mike davis, Purposefully Misleading Liarlink
my favorite was the cayote situation. he was right on that one also.
"But the real silliness begins with his claims that L.A.'s population is panicking due to the threat of man-eating coyotes and mountain lions. The only problem is that in over 200 years of history there have been ZERO people killed, much less eaten, by either a coyote or a mountain lion in the city of Los Angeles. Even when one takes in the entire Southern half of the state, there is exactly one death from each animal in 200 years. This warrants a chapter? When one considers that over 100 people every year are killed when their cars hit a deer, or that alligators have killed far more people in Florida in a single year than all coyote and mountain lion attacks in California in 200 years, it becomes obvious that Davis has gone over the edge from Fantasy Land into Paranoia Land."
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