Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear

"Everyone who digs into a delicious meal of all-natural organically grown produce is swallowing thousands of chemicals whose effects on the human body aren't fully understood and whose interaction with other chemicals is mysterious," writes a certain Dan Gardner

Why are the safest and healthiest people in history living in a culture of fear?

You Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself. In the year following September 11th 1,595 people died on America’s roads, as a direct result of having fled the airports to be safe from terrorism. The homicide rate in England was fourteen times higher in the Middle Ages than it is now. Worldwide, there are fewer than eighty unprovoked shark attacks per year. Poorly wired Christmas tree lights claim more victims than sharks.

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