Untruths put beach in bad light


Floating algae near Penang’s Pantai Esen is caused by natural phenomena such as high tide and monsoon. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

IT upsets me to learn that psychologists have coined the phrase “doomsayer’s delight”, referring to satisfaction derived by pessimists from being right when something bad happens.

It appears that there exists a group of people with the tendency to form bleak prognostications and pessimistic opinion, and then make it known when their gloomy predictions come true.

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