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41 Dorman, Markets and Mortality, p. 196; Michael Weisskopf and David Maraniss, “Ruling out OSHA” and “Industry’s Thumbprint on New OSHA Legislation,” Washington Post National Edition, 4 September 1995, pp. 6-9.
42 Frank Swoboda, “The Growing Problem of Workplace Safety,” Nieman Reports 48 (1994): 11-12; Weisskopf and Maraniss, “Ruling Out”; Dorman, Markets and Mortality, chs. 1 and 6.
43 ABC was among the few major media that debunked the overregulation myth. See ABC, “World News Tonight,” 3 April 1995.
44 See Dear, speech at American Industrial Hygiene Conference. An article that did cover silicosis: Yvonne Daley, “Deadly Occupational Hazard Under Scrutiny,” Boston Globe, 9 August 1998, p. D14.
45 Swoboda, Nieman Reports.
46 Cook, “Uncle Sam’s.”
47 Beck, “How Safe.”
48 Church, “Ripped.”
49 K. C. Cole, “What’s the Price of Life?” Los Angeles Times, 3 April 1997, p. B2.
Chapter Nine
1 Hadley Cantril, The Invasion from Mars (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 3.
2 Michele Ingrassia, “Life Means Nothing,” Newsweek, 19 July 1993, pp. 16-17; Progressive, July 1997, p. 9 (Clinton quote); Richard Cohen, “Dealing with Illegitimacy,” Washington Post, 23 November 1993, p. A21; Charles Krauthammer, “Children of Cocaine,” Washington Post, 30 July 1989, p. C7(“superpredators”). See also my discussions in chs. 4—6.
3 Ed Masley, “More Users Showing Signs of Compulsive Computer Behavior,” Pittsburgh Post—Gazette, 27 February 1996, p. A1 (“smoker” quote); Amy Harmon, “Virtual Sex, Lies and Cyberspace,” Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1997, p. A1, Carol Potera, “Trapped in the Web,” Psychology Today, March 1998, pp. 66-72; Gregory Crouch, “Cyber Junkies,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1998, pp. E1, 4; Bill Hendrick, “Internet Addiction Is Serious,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 17 August 1997, p. A1; Marilyn Elias, “Modem Matchmaking,” USA Today, 14 August 1997, p. D1; Vincent Kiernan, “Some Scholars Question Research Methods of Expert on Internet Addiction,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 May 1998, pp. 25-27.
4 Cantril, Invasion from Mars, p. 73; ABC, “20/20,” 30 June 1995; NBC, “Now,” 31 August 1994.
5 Cantril, Invasion from Mars, p. 68.
6 On American isolationism see David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of theJews: America and the Holocaust (New York: Pantheon, 1984); Bruce Russett, No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997); “Memories of War,” Economist, 6 May 1995, pp. 21-23. Quotes: Cantril, Invasion from Mars, pp. 100, 160.
7 Cantril, Invasion from Mars, pp. 161-62.
8 I expect that some readers would prefer that this book end with a precise prescription for the steps we must take to rid our society of fear. But if the culture of fear operates anything like the way I suggest, a twelve-step program is not what is needed. Rather, on a persistent and widespread basis, we must resist the methods that fear mongers employ and spend our collective wealth on the abatement of genuine rather than fanciful dangers.
Chapter Ten
1 Katherine Kaufer Christoffel and Xavier Bosch, “Firearm-Related Homicides Among Teenagers and Young Adults,” Journal of the American Medical Association281 (1999): 323-324.
2 Marilyn Manson, “Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?” Rolling Stone, 24 June 1999.
3 Maureen Dowd, “All that Glitters,” New York Times, 3 October 2001.
4 Matthew Wald and Trymaine Lee, “50 Killed as Plane Hits House Near Buffalo,” New York Times, 13 February 2009. Print coverage was in the February 14 issue.
5 Alan Levin, “In Buffalo, a Reminder of Lingering Air Safety Issues,” USA Today, 16 February 2009.
6 This estimate is based on an analysis of Lexis-Nexis databases of a randomized sampling of ten months during the period