Comments on: Scared to Death http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Thu, 09 May 2013 06:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pearl http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/comment-page-1/#comment-104636 Pearl Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:20:12 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/#comment-104636 heh, the bump in rate we can lay firmly at the feet of newspapers who flog the terrorist angle for sales, and gullible people who feel obliged to be thrilled.

]]> By: Paul http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/comment-page-1/#comment-104587 Paul Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:05:08 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/#comment-104587 People seem to be scared by what they’re told to be scared of. Fear seems to be the medium of choice for selling news.

jb says: The medium of choice for selling government, too.

]]> By: May http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/comment-page-1/#comment-104449 May Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:35:00 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/scared-to-death/#comment-104449 People are scared of flying, of meningitis, of aviary flu when they should worry about the pesticides contained in the food they eat or about the air they breathe twenty-four hours a day.
Like you, I suspect that we are induced to turn our attention to certain threats instead of to others.

Do not believe too much in medical studies, they are often in contradiction. To extract information from data is a much harder task than one might expect.

jb says: Yeah, statistics; but it was another way of looking at us looking at our problems.

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