Luckily, with each new scare the public becomes more and more wary (and weary).

Therefore, I think it is unfair to blame Carson solely for this and I certainly don’t go along with the rhetoric that she was a “mass murderer” and other terms that get bandied around

Logically, it should be possible to terminate this review here. Unfortunately, however, this book will have wide circulation on one of the standard subscription lists. It is doubtful that many readers can bear to wade through its high-pitched sequences of anxieties. It is likely to be perused uncritically, to be regarded by the layman as authoritative (which it is not), and to arouse in him manifestations of anxieties and psychoneuroses exhibited by some of the subjects cited by the author in the chapter “The Human Price.” Indeed, the author’s efforts at appraising the psychologic evidence concerning the effects of substances reveal a remarkable lack of competence as a psychiatrist, even as great a lack as in the area of toxicology or even knowledge of existing regulatory controls. The obvious effect of all this on the reader will be to aggravate unjustifiably his own neurotic anxiety.

Also:

The author ignores the sound appraisals of such responsible, broadly knowledgeable scientists as the President of the National Academy of Sciences, the members of the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee, the PResidents of the Rockefeller Foundation and Nutrition Foundation, the several committees of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (including the Food and Nutrition Board, the Agricultural Board, the Food Protection Committee) who have long given thoughtful study to these questions, and the special advisory committees appointed by the governors of California and Wisconsin. The latter committees were chaired by two distinguished scientist-presidents of universities, Dr. Emil Mrak and the late Dr. Conrad A. Elvehjem.

It demonstrates quite well, I think, how alarmism seems to self-manufacture in the press.

In case you’re wondering and can’t be bothered reading the article, the 100 figure is slightly out. The actual figure is around 21 million

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20120917

Andrew Barnham
September 28, 2012 at 3:14 pm

Myself and a couple of others are helping Joanne get the site up and running.

For what it’s worth, I do not believe the cause of the failure was a malicious powerful hack. Joanne’s site simply outgrow the modest capacities and competencies of her prior provider.

Building a high volume site on a shoe string is challenging; and personally slightly outside my domain expertise. But learning fast. Minor turbulence expected ahead, but will be back into the swing of things before too long.

http://joannenova.com.au/wp/2012/09/bingo-were-back/#comment-1129773