Location: Home > History > Public Health & Preventive Medicine > Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth

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: ~~Ł16.99~~
Buy New: Ł9.71
You Save: Ł7.28 (43%)

New (32) Used (5) from Ł9.71

Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

22 reviews
Sales Rank: 1764

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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW - ***Delivery usually * 2 - 3 * working days - From Aphrohead of SOUTHPORT, Lancs, uk *** . Priority Airmail used Worldwide on International orders. Thanks from all at Aphrohead.

Customer Reviews:

Showing reviews 6-10 of 22

« PREV

1 2 3 4 5

Required reading May 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This should be required reading for every voter! I've always thought some of these fiascos defied common sense but hadn't realised just how far down this road the lunatics running the asylum had taken us!

5 out of 5 stars

Must read for all free-thinkers April 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

This book is both fascinating, authoritative and excellently referenced.

The chapter on 'satanic abuse' nearly had me in tears of rage, such was the sinister and quite outrageous behaviour of those involved.

5 out of 5 stars

Compulsive and scary in its own right March 17, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

The content has been reviewed excellently here already - I can't add anything to those reviews.

However, the thing that struck me about the book, which was as compulsive as any I can remember, was the level-headedness with which the facts were revealed. Only knowing a couple of these case studies in any depth (including the 'climate crisis' nonsense), I was shocked at how often basic corroboration of science or proclamations has been missing, and have been particularly concerned at the absence of investigative journalism. (I was delighted that they included the BBC's coverage of Live Earth - I was horrified that the BBC chose its role as that of 'advocate' instead of balanced and challenging news carrier.)

The book carefully avoids seeming like a conspiracy-theorists' manifesto, carefully unpicking the anatomy of scares.

If only this book, instead of An Inconvenient Truth, were to be circulated to all schools in the UK.

5 out of 5 stars

Now I know . . . March 17, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

Like many people, I have been very suspicious of the recent outburst of scares of one sort or another. For instance, was a wooden chopping board really dangerous? I have also been suspicious of the "authorities" and the "science" which lies behind the scares. Well, if you have been concerned about such matters, you must read this book. It takes a cold, hard, look at what happened, what the facts really were and why (as so often happens) emotion replaces logic, those who dissent are silenced one way or another, and a falsehood becomes truth.

Government, politicians and the media do not show up well when the facts are finally brought to light (though there are always some honourable souls who retain their sense of proportion and concern for truth). Most horrific, however, are the casualties of the panics and witch hunts which have taken place - farmers whose lives were blighted by food scares, children and parent who suffered when satanic abuse was invented in the 1990s and many more.

For the authors the scare of all scares is the global warming theory. They believe that it has the characteristics of early scares - little scientific basis, disconfirming evidence is ignored and a bandwagon effect leads to vastly inflated claims. If you agree with them, then you are looking at a disaster as vast amounts of resources are diverted into fruitless efforts to slow climate change when, of course, these reources could have been used productively. Awful. My guess is the authors are right - why would governments suppress scientists who disagree with them if they were confident they were right?

A must read.

5 out of 5 stars

scared to death March 12, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I cannot impress on you how important it is that you and everyone that you know must read this book. You will be outraged many times before you finish reading and will want to share the contents with all the open minded people that you know. you will want to discuss it and read what other people think about it.You may not want to believe the things that you will read but it is so rigorous in its approach that you will struggle to refute the contents. Scared to death is the most significant book that i have read and it should be compulsory reading for all mps, local councillors and social workers.
Once you understand the sequence of events which lead to a scare, you will be able to listen to the news with more objectivity and possibly recognise that iran is the current scare which george bush is inflicting on the world and the eu will no doubt give him the green light to persue whatever policy that he deems appropriate. Its all in this book, read it *PLEASE* and you will see for yourself.
Having read the other rewiews of this work, i agree with every word that the reviewers have written.
If you read this book, then the question that will linger in your mind as it has in mine, will be..... why have we allowed all of this to happen.