We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And
yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare
stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the stuff of daily
life? In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner
shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives,
often with unforeseen and sometimes-tragic consequences.
He
throws light on our paranoia about everything from paedophiles to
terrorism and reveals how the most significant threats are actually the
mundane risks to which we pay little attention. Speaking to
psychologists and scientists, as well as looking at the influence of the
media and politicians, Gardner uncovers one of the central puzzles of
our time: why are the safest people in history living in a culture of
fear?
Risk : The Science and Politics of Fear - Dan Gardner
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