The writers of JW publications have never read a doom and gloom scenario that they didn?t thoroughly enjoy. The accuracy of the information apparently is only a secondary consideration. This may sound a little harsh, but consider the following example:
This jewel appeared in the June 22, 1993 issue of Awake! on page 29
"The scientific community reconfirms the severity of the Spanish influenza. According to The New York Times Magazine, 196,000 people died in the United States alone during the month of October 1918. "By the end of the winter of 1918-19, two billion people around the world had come down with influenza, and between 20 million and 40 million had died," the magazine says."
The problem here is that world population didn?t reach the 2 billion mark until the 1930?s. In 1918 the total world population was only about 1.8 billion persons. So even if we assume that every single individual on the face of the earth had been infected by the end of winter 1918-1919, (which did not happen) we still would have needed about 200 million aliens to also contract the flu. I wonder if they came from somewhere in the Pleiades?