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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Its certainly true is is being royally exploited to make money and extort grants etc and its being used as a political football by people who would not know their Celsius from their arsehole

All of which is shameful, but none of which makes it "just a scam".

There are hundreds of "will-writing" scams around; it doesn't mean that death isn't real.