What we are doing is making children more insecure as our alarmist message becomes part of everyday life.
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Perhaps what we can learn from SARS is perspective. There are very real threats, but they don't always have to follow a Hollywood disaster movie script, ... Flu epidemics do occur. It's part of our human experience. We've survived it before and we're in a much better position to deal with it now than ever before. We have ways to contain these things that would've been unthinkable even 10 years ago.Frank Furedi
Gluttons no longer gorge themselves they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders
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We are creating a new security state for children,
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If you look at the research that's published, it's always 'Research says that such-and-such will happen if you suntan,' and attached to that is usually a demand for more research money. That's how the fear market is created.
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