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The Panic Pathogen is a gripping methodical detective story about how precisely grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the advertising snacks all viewpoints as equally valid, irrespective of facts, from parents who think that vaccines induced their children's autism to right-wing radicals who think that environment change is a myth. It also points out how the unlimited quantity of information available online has radicalized partisans by fueling their inclination to filter anything that doesn't strengthen their way of thinking. Tens of huge amount of money have been misused appeasing denialists who think the government is perpetrating a health "holocaust" on children. Declining vaccination rates have induced recent outbreaks of measles, whooping coughing, and Hib - and children around the country are dying as a result. Like works by Oliver Sacks and Richard Dawkins, The Panic Pathogen uses day-to-day experiences showing how science influences our lives. Listeners will learn why definitive evidence in science is nearly impossible, how rational decision-making is ruled by emotion, and just why paupers' graves in the 1880s resulted in an outbreak of throat cancer tumor in the 1950s.
