TY  - BOOK
AU  - Booker, Christopher
AU  - North, Richard
TI  - Scared to death : from BSE to coronavirus : why scares are costing us the earth
SN  - 9781472987341
U1  - 363.19 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Public health scares
KW  - Asian bird flu
KW  - Economic impact of public health scares
N1  - Modern society has repeatedly experienced a series of headline-grabbing "scares" in recent decades, ranging from salmonella and BSE to asbestos and "Asian bird flu." This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how these scares have evolved into a significant, often overlooked burden on Western economies over the past two decades. Time and again, media hysteria fueled by these scares has been driven by flawed science, bogus statistics, and the pursuit of funding by scientists, gullible journalists, and panicking politicians. This inevitably results in excessive and costly regulatory measures, only to be followed by the eventual exposure of scientific flaws and significant economic damage; includes index
ER  -