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David Ropeik is an Instructor at Harvard and author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts (http://www.dropeik.com/buy.html)

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E.coli, and Fear of E.coli -- Both Are Dangerous

(17) Comments | Posted June 6, 2011 | 9:50 AM

The outbreak of food-borne disease in Europe offers an interesting lesson in the psychology of risk perception, and how that psychology can contribute to the overall risk. To be sure, the danger from this outbreak is real. It has tragically killed nearly two dozen people so far, and sickened more...

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Lessons in the Storm Over One Toronto Baby

(32) Comments | Posted May 31, 2011 | 9:00 AM

The decision by a Toronto couple to keep the gender of their new baby Storm a secret, to protect the child from the constraints of social gender norms, is honorable. Naïve, but honorable.

What's puzzling is that the couple already has two sons. This means they ought...

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