On Risk
Fresh perspectives on our risky world.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Nuclear Power. It's not about the facts. It's how those facts FEEL
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The Vermont Yankee nuclear power issue teaches clear and valuable lessons about the powerful influence of affective risk perception on publi...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Risk of Fear of Vaccines
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I posted something on Facebook about the U.S. Vaccine Court denying claims of parents who said their kids’ autism was caused by vaccination....
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, A Risk We Don't Worry About Enough
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We fret a lot about all sorts of things, but sometimes the real threats are the ones we don’t fret about enough. A HUGE risk that most peopl...
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The Risk of Antibiotic Resistance Explained
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Antibiotic Resistance from "RISK! A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Ar...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Policy That Feels Right But Raises Our Risk
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Do you use a cell phone when you drive? Not to text, or watch videos, which is just plain stupid. Just to talk, so at least you can keep bot...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Autism, Vaccines, and the Affective Response to Risk
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In February 1998 The Lancet published a small paper by A. J. Wakefield, et. al., which studied 12 autistic children and found no link betwee...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Why We Can't "Outgrow" War
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James Carroll asks in an opinion column in the Boston Globe Monday 1/25 if the human race can outgrow war. http://tinyurl.com/yeek4a2 . Acce...
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