False Alarms and Real Dangers
Author | : George Willard |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Fourth of July orations |
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Author | : George Willard |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Fourth of July orations |
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Author | : John Adam (D.D.) |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Allan Mazur |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136527524 |
Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable increase of leukemia. But new allegations continuously arise. Are manufactured chemicals in the environment distorting normal hormonal processes in our bodies? Are genetically modified foods a cause for concern? Addressing one of the most vexing problems in risk policy, Allan Mazur asks how we can tell, at an early stage, how seriously we should take a new warning. To identify hallmarks that could help predict the truth or falsity of an alleged hazard, Mazur analyzes 31 health warnings raised during the 1950s and 1960s about diverse technologies, including fluoridation, DDT, cyclamate, nuclear weapons testing, and birth control pills. Among his considerations are the initial source of an alarm, the biases held by its primary 'sponsors,' and the type of media coverage it receives. With 30 to 50 years of hindsight, he identifies characteristics - apparent from the outset of a controversy - that most effectively distinguish true warnings from false alarms. Early recognition and a timely response to a genuine hazard are important to protect our environment, health, and economic well-being. But if we act quickly and a warning turns out to be false, money is wasted, people are needlessly frightened, regulators lose credibility, and our ability to appropriately handle the next set of risks is compromised. Mazur's findings do not provide certainty about which of today's warnings will prove true and which will prove false. But they do help us to make informed judgments about where it is best and most reasonable to direct our worries and resources.
Author | : George Willard |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
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Release | : 2016-05-24 |
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ISBN | : 9781359372352 |
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Author | : George Willard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1875 |
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Author | : Sebastian Festag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9783503209699 |
2nd, revised and expanded edition In hazardous situations, alerting those affected and intervention services is crucial. In several cases, there is however a lack of evidence of any hazard at the location of the incident. In such cases we are talking about false alarms. There are many different causes for false alarms and the phenomenon is widespread. They exist for example in alarm and early warning systems, people screeners, in the diagnosis of diseases, in journalism and in politics. This False Alarm Study is the result of the work of the Euralarm Task Group on False Alarms. The Task Group investigated the false alarm issue of fire detection and fire alarm systems in several European countries. The material was carefully collected and objectively processed using a comprehensible basis to achieve comparable calculations and identify trends and risk priorities. The study provides approaches towards reducing false alarms and discusses the opportunities and risks. The work is currently unique. For the first time facts and trends on the false alarm issue of fire detection and fire alarm systems with a view of several European countries are presented and made available to an international audience. The study provides basics relevant to the fire safety industry concerned, but also to fire departments, associations, insurance companies, testing facilities, planners and installers, building operators and science.
Author | : Sebastian Festag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2022-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783503209682 |
Author | : Allan Mazur |
Publisher | : Resources for the Future |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health risk assessment |
ISBN | : 9781891853555 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : George Willard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2015-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781331252252 |
Excerpt from False Alarms and Real Dangers: An Oration States and kingdoms have exemplified the too common instability of human institutions and the insufficiency of the basis upon which political societies are too frequently founded. Still these changes and revolutions have not been such as to cause regret or to arouse distrust. The period which comprises our national record, has been the world's bright particular period of growth in material prosperity, in social enlightenment and in substantial civilization. Science and the arts have not merely advanced, but they have assumed new and unwonted theatres for the exhibition of their capabilities, and have so fully developed into new and higher forms of organized utility, that they are to be no longer recognized by their former features and outlines. Industry has secured a marvelous multiplication of the instruments required for the accomplishment of its results. Business has discovered far ampler and more remunerative fields for the display of its energies, and has extended its dominion by wholly novel and hitherto unused modes of conquest. Thus, while the Republic enters upon the one hundreth year of its existence, with a conscious developement of it own powers and resources, it finds that the ouside world, in the meanwhile, has been far from remaining stationary. The growth of the nation's faculties and the developement of its own interior political system, have been coincident with an altered phase of human society elsewhere. This growth of the Republic has of necessity involved the formation of new links of intercourse and the assumption of new responsibilities in its inevitable relation to a world which, in thought, in modes of action, in the boldness of its undertakings, in the reach and sweep of its enterprise, in its ambition for grand and successful achievement, in its steady measurement of the utility of theory by the results of practice, has been revolutionized since the memorable day on which our fathers staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for liberty and independence, and, in the unselfishness of their devotion, opened a new chapter and fixed a new era in the history of mankind. Work Of The Past Century - Organization. In the century now closing, the really great questions with which the nation has been required to grapple, have been those of organization. This work may, however, be now regarded as complete. The Republic is now established upon the foundations of sectional harmony and universal liberty. The chief causes which gave suspicion of its imperfection, have, fortunately, been removed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : S. Breznitz |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134923023 |
Published in the year 1984, Cry Wolf is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.