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	Tuesday 23 May 2006, London
	Save the planet, don't see the world?
	Tourism versus the environment

Article

27 April 2006

Scaring by numbers
France was once immune to news stories based on dodgy statistics. No longer.

by V�ronique Campion-Vincent

Article

20 April 2006

'Gambling is a pastime, not a disease'
American addiction expert Stanton Peele chastises British commentators who see gamblers as fickle victims.

	2 March 2006 Child obesity Should we worry if our children are overweight?

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Article

21 March 2006

I was a human guinea pig
Why I allowed the medical establishment to test their new drugs on me.

by Neil Davenport

Article

16 March 2006

Do we need another hosepipe ban?
Our leaders' tight-fisted and moralistic approach to water supply is a bigger problem than lack of rainfall.

by Rob Lyons

Article

9 March 2006

Creative accounting for facts
Statistics make for scary headlines � but a few simple errors often lie behind them.

by Nell Barrie

Article

28 February 2006

Don't touch those kids!
New research reveals why teachers and childcare workers now avoid putting a plaster on a child's leg - even though they know the rules are ridiculous.

by Josie Appleton


	Politics of Fear by Frank Furedi Read the interview on spiked Buy the book from Amazon(UK)

Column

Mick Hume

23 February 2006

Bird flu and Chicken Little culture
Why are critics of the politics of fear turning into scaremongers about the threat of an avian flu pandemic?

Columns

Article

23 February 2006

Bird flu: an infectious panic
Even if bird flu does transform into a human pandemic, we are better placed to tackle it than ever before in history.

by Rob Lyons

Article

16 February 2006

Smoking out the facts
The ban on public smoking is justified as a measure to protect workers from second-hand smoke. But how big is the risk?

by Rob Lyons

Article

14 February 2006

Gordon Brown's tyranny of security
What life, liberty and politics would be like if he were to become prime minister.

Article

19 January 2006

Euthanasia: scaring us to death
Those who support the legalisation of assisted suicide have become the chief fearmongers in the debate.

by Kevin Yuill

Article

9 January 2006

Down with catastrophism
James Howard Kunstler's new book, The Long Emergency, depicts humans as parasites who might benefit from a mass die-off. Speak for yourself.

by Joe Kaplinsky

Article

6 January 2006

The double tragedy in West Virginia
How the media helped to make a bad situation worse.

by Helen Searls

Article

22 December 2005

Capitalism as if the world matters more than we do
In his new book, Jonathon Porritt dresses up a demand for austerity in the language of environmentalism.

by Daniel Ben-Ami

Column

Jennie Bristow

12 December 2005

A dark day for whom?
The Buncefield blaze has set the British media ablaze with conspiracy theories and doomsday fantasies, while the news is reported by amateurs.

Columns

Article

8 December 2005

Drink-spiking scare: shots of anxiety
A new police study finds little evidence of drug-assisted rape. So why are awareness-raising campaigns getting into full swing?

by Josie Appleton

Article

1 December 2005

REACHing an impasse
The new EU chemicals legislation shows the triumph of environmentalist thinking over common sense.

by Sarah David

Article

14 November 2005

Exploiting our nuclear fears
It's alleged that three Australian terror suspects were thinking about targeting a nuclear reactor. Where could they have got an idea like that?

Column

Mick Hume

28 October 2005

Why do we believe these anti-human horror stories?
From Lozells to New Orleans, unsubstantiated rumours of rape, murder and depravity are now being spread as hard fact.

Columns

Article

30 September 2005

Hurricane Katrina: Location, Relocation, Abandonment...
Why have risk managers been so quick to give up on New Orleans?

by Steve Gibson

Article

14 September 2005

There's more to roads than safety
A transport policy with the sole aim to cut deaths to zero - where�s the vision in that?

by Timandra Harkness

Article

11 July 2005

The bombs made enough victims - let's not make more
A leading psychiatrist argues that the last thing Londoners need now is trauma counselling.

by Professor Simon Wessely

Article

20 May 2005

How I unwittingly helped to start the Happy Slaps panic
A modern media tale: my 15 minutes of fame commenting on those 15-second videos.

by Graham Barnfield

Article

5 April 2005

Running isn't just for fun
A long-distance runner on how events like the London Marathon are being sanitised and slowed down.

by Alan Buckingham

Article

6 January 2005

How we deal with disasters
From 'Acts of God' to 'Acts of Nature' and 'Acts of Man' - humanity's reading of catastrophes has changed through the ages.

by Frank Furedi

Column

Mick Hume

29 December 2004

After the tsunami: horrifying, but not 'humbling'
Some have sought to ride the tidal wave as the vehicle for their pet political messages.

Columns

Article

28 November 2003

Does al-Qaeda exist?
Not in the way that we think, say some terrorism experts.