WHAT: The former CIA director and deputy secretary of defense says “there’s a very genuine possibility that the U.S. public will turn against [natural gas fracking] and then slow it, if not eliminate it” because of worries about groundwater contamination. WHY IT’S DIM: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it isn’t aware of a single instance of groundwater contamination attributable to hydraulic fracturing. The process, called fracking, has been used more than a million times in the U.S. in the past six decades.
CURE: Ban MIT professors from watching propaganda films like “Gasland.”
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