False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear - Softcover

Siegel, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470053844 ISBN 13: 9780470053843

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Synopsis

Life today for citizens of the developed world is safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we live in an artificially created culture of fear. In False Alarm, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear government, the media, and big pharma. With fascinating, blow–by–blow analyses of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, he shows how these fearmongers manipulate our most primitive instincts often without our even realizing it. False Alarm shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria, inoculate ourselves against fear tactics, and develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 256 in Publisher: John Wiley Life today for citizens of the developed world is far safer. easier.. And healthier than for any other people in history. Modern medicine has all but wiped out many diseases that once were common killers. Science and technology have given us countless devices that protect our bodies from injury. secure our property. and warn us of impending disaster. And modern intelligence gathering can pinpoint threats to our domestic security as they arise. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America The answer. according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel. is that we live in an artificially created culture of fear. From the anthrax panic to the SARS epidemic. from official rumors of bioterror to Orange alerts to West Nile virus - the media continually bombard us with eaking news of yet another super-b...

Review:

"Anthrax, vaccine shortages, and SARS, oh my! Americans have been pummeled with an endless series of apparent threats. Siegel makes a passionate argument that the only thing we have to fear is, indeed, our own paranoia. Reason, he says, is the best vaccination for this epidemic." ("Psychology Today, September/October 2005)

"Marc Siegel tries to reduce the hysteria quotient with a straightforward recitation of facts and statistics. Recalling the famous Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," Siegel tries all too sensibly (and one suspects futilely) to assess risk accurately and respond only to "plausible" threats such as the vulnerability of our container ships or "loose nukes" in former Soviet republics." (Benamin Barber, "Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2005)

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470053844
• ISBN 13: 9780470053843
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256