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Panic now! Or later? |
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| Authors: | Simon Briscoe |
| Institution: | Writes panic-free stories for the Financial Times. Panicology, the Mad Science of Media Scares;, by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey- Williams, is published by Viking Penguin at £18.88 (see ). |
| Abstract: | Simon Briscoe , author of a new book, Panicology , examines the role that data plays in media scare stories. Scary newspaper stories are scattered throughout this piece. Just how much ought we to be panicked by headlines? |
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