Gardner exposes false fears in public policy making

Ottawa Citizen journalist and author Dan Gardner probes how fear is used to promote certain public policies and how the media play right along with it.

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BY Abbas Rana

May 5, 2008

Award-winning Ottawa Citizen journalist Dan Gardner says he decided to write his book Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear to reveal how politicians, media, and other interest groups use "fear" for their own vested interest to influence the judgment of an average person about the ...

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