The Culture of Fear_ Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - Barry Glassner [169]
31 See for example, Susan King, “Vaccination Policies: Individual Rights υ Community Health,” British Medical Journal 319 (1999): 1448-49; Robert J. Leggiadro, “Vaccine Refusal, Mandatory Immunization, and the Risk of Vaccine Preventable Diseases,” The Pediatric Infectious DiseaseJournal28 (2009): 613; Anita Manning, “Hib Infection in Children Makes A Deadly Return,” USA Today, 16 February 2009; Jill Adams, “One Disease’s Encore,” Los Angeles Times, 23 February 2009; Liz Szabo, “Whooping Cough Returns in Children,” USA Today, 26 May 2009.
32 See for example, Anders Hviid, Michael Stellfeld et al., “Association Between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine and Autism,” Journal of the American Medical Association 290 (2003): 1763-66; Robert Schechter and Judith Grether, “Continuing Increases in Autism Reported to California’s Developmental Services System: Mercury in Retrograde,” Archives of General Psychiatry 65 (2008): 19-24. Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, “Eli Stone Pilot,” original airdate, 31 January 2008, 10:00 p.m. (ABC). Transcript provided by “Twiz Tv.Com-Free Tv Scripts Database.” Originally transcribed for www.Eli-Stone.org.
33 “Speaking Out on the Autism ‘Epidemic,’” Miller-McGlune, June- July 2008.
34 Donald McNeil, “Book Rallies Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade,” New York Times, 13 January 2009; Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey, “My Son’s Recovery From Autism,” CNN.com, posted April 4, 2008; Weston Kosova and Pat Wingert, “Crazy Talk,” Newsweek, 8 June 2009. See also full-page advertisements in national publications from Carrey and McCarthy’s advocacy group, Generation Rescue (e.g., USA Today, 25 February 2009).
35 Sharon Begley, “Anatomy of a Scare,” Newsweek, 2 March 2009. See also, Matthew Normand and Jesse Dallery, “Mercury Rising,” Skeptic Magazine 13, no. 3 (2007).
36 See, for example, “Gulf War Syndrome Is Real, Panel Concludes,” Washington Post, 18 November 2008; Mary Engel and Thomas Maugh, “Report to Congress: Gulf War Syndrome Is Real,” Los Angeles Times, 18 November 2008. See also, Harriet Hall, “Gulf War Syndrome or Gulf Lore Mythology,” Skeptic Magazine 14 (2009): 26-29.
37 Daniel Heimpel, “The Toxic Mold Rush: California Mom Helps Fuel an Obsession,” LA Weekly, 23 July 2008.
38 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Facts About Stachybotrys Chartarum and Other Molds,” http://www.cdc.gov/mold/stachy.htm#Ql. Accessed 18 November 2008.
39 “Damp Indoor Spaces and Health,” National Academies Press, 2004 (quote is from the press release from the Academies.) See also, Linda Thomas-Mobley, “U.S. Evidence Laws and Their Influence on Mold Litigation Outcomes,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 133 (2007): 352-57; David Edmondson, Mark Nordness et al., “Allergy and ’Toxic Mold Syndrome,‘” Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology 94 (2005): 234-39; Jay Portnoy, Kristina Kwak et al., “Health Effects of Indoor Fungi,” Annals ofAllergy,Asthma and Immunology 94 (2005): 313-20; Daniel Fisher, “Dr. Mold,” Forbes, 11 April 2005; Richard Wilson, “Ensuring Sound Science in the Courts,” Technology in Society, 26 (2004): 501-22.
40 Danilo Yanich, “Crime Creep: Urban and Suburban Crime on Local TV News,” Journal of Urbari Affairs 26 (2004): 535-63.
41 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Science Looks at Littleton, and Shrugs,” New York Times, 9 May 1999.
42 Sharon Begley, “The Anatomy of Violence,” Newsweek, 30 April 2007. Pages away, in a separate feature devoted to “Guns: The Global Death Toll,” the magazine reported that in Japan, “handguns are prohibited. Shotguns are very strictly regulated and rifle permits can be obtained only after owning a shotgun for ten years.”
43 Stolberg, “Science Looks at Littleton, and Shrugs.”
44 Philip Cook, Bruce Lawrence et al., “The