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68 Emily Martin, Flexible Bodies (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994), p. 194.
69 Marquis, “A Vocal Attack”; issues of “DPT News” and “NVIC News,” 1983 through 1995 (statistic from NVIC News, November 1994).
70 Alan Patureau, “Alabamian Overcomes Deafness to Compete with a Select Few in the Miss America Pageant,“ Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 16 September 1994, p. A3.
71 Gary Freed et al., “Safety of Vaccinations: Miss America, the Media, and Public Health,” Journal of the American Medical Association 276 (18 December 1996): 1869-72; Lewis Cope, “Vaccine Did Not Cause Winner’s Deafness,“ Star Tribune, 2 October 1994, p. E2; Sandra Evans, “How Safe Are Mandatory Immunizations?” Washington Post, 27 September 1994, p. Z9.
72 Andrea Rock, “The Lethal Dangers of the Billion-Dollar Vaccine Business,” Money, December 1996, pp. 148-64; Marquis, “A Vocal Attack” (contains “doggedness” quote); John Schwartz, “FDA Approves New Vaccine with Fewer Risks to Control Whooping Cough,” Washington Post, 1 August 1996, p. A24 (contains “culmination” quote); Arthur Allen, “Injection Rejection,” New Republic, 23 March 1998, pp. 20-23.
73 Interviews with vaccine authorities Dr. Edward Mortimer of Case Western University, 12 December 1994, and Dr. Stephen Chartrand, Creighton University, 13 December 1994; “New Vaccine May Be Used For Pertussis,” Associated Press, 25 November 1994; Thomas Maugh, “New Whooping Cough Vaccine Safer,” Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1994; “Pertussis Vaccine Controversy Continues,” Reuters, 2 February 1998.
Chapter Eight
1 Figures from David Hinson, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in speeches and interviews: see, e.g., “Larry King Live,” CNN, 14 May 1996. See also Julie Schmit and Del Jones, “Some Drive, but Most Will Keep Flying,” USA Today, 17 November 1994, p. A1; Paul Aldo, “Regulating Safety,” paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings, March 1996.
2 “Public Deserves Faster Action on Safety Measures,” USA Today, 15 December 1994, p. A8; Adam Bryant, “Why No Airline Brags, ‘We’re the Safest’,” New York Times, 9 June 1996, pp. D1, 3.
3 Laura Parker, “Airline Accident Rate Is Highest in 13 Years,” Washington Post, 13 January 1988, p. A8; Victor Cohn, “Probable Fact and Probable Junk,” paper posted in 1996 on the Internet by the Foundation for American Communications (FACS); Melinda Beck, “How Safe Is This Flight?” Newsweek, 24 April 1995, p. 18.
4 Stephen J. Hedges et al., “What’s Wrong with the FAA,” U.S. News & World Report, 26 June 1995, pp. 28-34. Fatality statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board.
5 Chistopher Farley, “Air Safety—Under a Cloud,” Time, 26 December, 1994, p. 114; “High Anxiety in the Skies,” USA Today, 17 November 1994, p. A1.
6 “Fifth Crash in as Many Years”: see, e.g., John Daly, “The Fear of Flying,” Maclean‘s, 26 September 1994, pp. 26-27; Adam Bryant, “Outsted FAA Man,” New York Times, 21 June 1996, p. A10. See also George Church, “Ripped from the Sky,” Time, 19 September 1994, pp. 38-39.
7 Douglas Frantz, “Committed to Safety and Telling the World,” NewYork Times, 27 November 1994, p. N2; Carl Quintanilla, “USAir Appoints Retired General to Oversee Safety,” Wall StreetJournal,21 November 1994, p. B7. Gina Kolata, “When Is Coincidence Too Bad to Be True?” New York Times, 11 September 1994, p. D4; Arnold Barnett, “How Numbers Can Trick You,” Technology Review 97 (1994): 38-46.
8 Barnett, “How Numbers Can Trick You.” A quarter century earlier Barnett had also shown consistency in safety records among airlines: Arnold Barnett et al., “Airline Safety,” Management Science 23 (1979): 1045-56. On rankings by safety records see also Jonathan Dahl and Lisa Miller, “Which Is the Safest Airline? It All Depends,” Wall Street Journal, 24 July 1996, p. B1.
9 Del Jones, “Avoid Small Planes, Warns Group,” USA Today, 15 November 1994, p. A1.
10 Farley, “Under a Cloud,” p. 114. The commuter scare and the FAA’s statistics: