A man wrote a letter to the NY Times that,of course, never got published. The letter has been circulating around the Inter Net and has been read by at least 500,000 people. The person who wrote the letter, Lou Pritchett was a vice president from Proctor and Gamble (retired) and he admitted it to SNOPES:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp