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Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth | 
 enlarge | Authors: Christopher Booker, Richard North
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 971
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.8
ISBN: 0826486142
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780826486141
ASIN: 0826486142
Publication Date: November 10, 2007
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
Fascinating July 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Really fascinating and persuasive book describing the real stories behind many scares such as BSE, salmonella, asbestos and now global warming... Cant recommend it enough for people who want a deeper understanding about the realities of the world.
POSSIBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK WRITTEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARS July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be compulsory reading for every politician, national or local, and every public servant. It is a horrifying book that describes in accurate detail how those in authority lie, deceive and cheat the very people who vote them into power. The sheer amount of money that has been squandered in this way would have been enough to feed everyone on this planet for the next hundred years!
Top Trump July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Brilliant. This is the most direct antidote to the self-important piffle peddled by Al Gore. It is a book that asks it's readers to do an old fashioned, British thing; think for yourself. It tells you about things that are presented by government and others as facts, but are anything but. It also includes the scandalous story of the government poisoning farmers and then covering it up. A real scare rather than a manufactured one. Time after time we are told to be afraid merely to support some political agenda, Booker and North lift the lid a little on the cockroaches.
Not so much a 'wake-up call 'as the last trumpet June 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the most serious book I have ever read - and I am over 70 and relatively well-educated and informed. The Epilogue - and especially the third from final paragraph - should be read, marked, learned and inwardly digested by all thinking people from sixth-formers to geriatrics like me. If I am left with one thought after reading this meticulously documented catalogue of ignorant and disgraceful behaviour, it is how badly our UK legislators and officials have performed over the past 30-40 years and how little they deserve, or have deserved, their salaries, expenses and pensions. All these things have happened on their watch - a watch we relied on them to keep faithfully and conscientously. Perhaps in this story lies the real reason why we have, maybe unconsciously until now, come to despise and mistrust them all.
A real eye opener! June 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A great read, covering the major scare stories of our time and exposing them. Even if you're sceptical about being sceptical, you owe it to yourself to explore all the options and have an informed opinion, rather than shaped by the fear mongering press.
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