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Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth by: Christopher Booker, Richard North List Price: £16.99 City Travel Guides Price: £10.17 You Save: £6.82 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 306 EAN: 9780826486141 ISBN: 0826486142 Label: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: November 10, 2007 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Studio: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Sales Rank: 2895 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: James Delingpole: This brilliant expose of some of the most destructive delusions of our time should be compulsory reading for everyone (particularly journalists and politicians) and if people took heed the world would suddenly become a better place. Synopsis: From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird 'flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, 'scares' have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book for the first time tells the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern.It analyses the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by the media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay a colossal price, which may run into billions or even hundreds of billions of pounds. This book culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what it shows has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through man-made global warming. In an epilogue the authors compare our credulity in falling for scares to mass-hysterias of previous ages such as the post-mediaeval 'witch craze', describing our time as a 'new age of superstition'. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Are we following the herd on this one?I had high hopes for this one, but having dug behind some of the statistics it seems that the authors are also guilty of pushing scare stories. For example, data on salmonella infections/deaths is presented on page 45. The authors make the point that the number of deaths at the time of the crisis is less than in 1982. What is not stated is that 1982 appears to be something of an aberration, the highpoint of some 30 years data (data available from Hansard - Written Answers). In other places the narrative is overly dramatic. A Professor, criticised in the book, is said to have rushed to an outbreak. How can the urgency be proved? Were speeding tickets incurred? We are not told. It's still an interesting subject, but read with ... Read More: Rating: - FascinatingReally 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. Rating: - POSSIBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK WRITTEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARSThis 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! Rating: - Top TrumpBrilliant. 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. Rating: - Not so much a 'wake-up call 'as the last trumpetThis 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 ... Read More: |
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