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 - terrific bookProvides the history and the facts about many of the overblown crises scaring the public and causing tremendous wasts Rating: - ExcellentThis book is very revealing. Not just about us as a species and how we tend to except negative over positive....but about how the media and government work to take advantage of that fact. ...and of course how this all results in bad policy decisions. The chapter on global warming is most revealing of all. Al Gore fans stay away unless you are prepared to be disillusioned with him. Rating: - A GREAT, well-documented recitation of recent historical ScaresThis book describes and documents (thoroughly) a series of historically recent hysteria incidents in Britain and America, usually caused by "real" events which were immediately blown up out of all proportion to the event itself by people with their own agendas, some in private life, including academia, and some in government, by using incomplete or inaccurate data. The authors posit a pattern that seems to exist for each "scare" that determines the severity of the political and economic consequences. They include, as the title shows, "BSE to Global Warming" as well as many others, such as "satanic child abuse", "salmonella in eggs" etc. This book is well worth reading, regardless of the reader's position on the political spectrum. Rating:  - Too Far From HomeRelevant in that all governments are incompetant and inefficient, but the book is England based. Government names and titles are probably wasted on most Americans and that hurts your ability to follow much of the book. I had hoped for something a little closer to home; the global warming issue is closer due to heavy US involvement, but that's less than a quarter of the book. Well researched and documented. Presents the "other side" of many issues that the stampede misses. A very slow read. Rating: - Antidote for Scares"Scared to Death" does a very good job of describing past scares: Salmonella in eggs, Listeria in cheese, Mad Cow Disease, Dioxins in poultry feed, anti-malarial DDT, SARS and bird flu, The Milennium Bug, Ritualized Child Abuse, Auto Speed Limits, Lead in gasoline, Passive Smoking, organophosphorus in pesticides, and The Great Asbestos Scam. This book also summarizes the misinformation and misconceptions surrounding the Global Warming Scare and explains why the Kyoto Protocol is a futile and economically disastrous policy. page 1 of 2
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