Perspectives on Science Issues and General Risks: Science and Environmental Issues

Life is a sexually transmitted condition which is inevitably fatal! High Cancer death rates in an advanced society, are indicative of a healthy society! Really? It is not so much how you die, as when you die. What do you know about the scientific method? Can you rank your own risks in life? Do you even know what they are? Do you know what is likely to kill you? What do you know about 'the Good Old Days' and how they lived, or what they died of? Or even what they thought they died of? Do you know what their life-expectancy was, or why, and what yours is, and why? What do you know of cost/benefit analysis? Do you know what sustainable development means? What do you think of The Precautionary Principle? Or have you never thought about it? Would you recognize a logical fallacy if it bit you? If you had a billion dollars to spend to achieve the greatest possible good for society, where would you spend it? Did you know that it is not the responsibility of the media to tell the truth, but merely to report liars, accurately? Makes you think, doesn't it? You will find the answers to these and many other questions in this book. It will provoke you. It may even annoy you. But at the end of it, you will know a hell of a lot more than you do now.