The public panic button
at 2:12pm on Wednesday, 26th October 2005
Bird flu. Terrorism. The MMR vaccine. vCJD. Major scares about public safety have become commonplace. Yet according to a recent report the world is safer now than it was in the 1960s. So are we living in an age of panic?
Tom will be on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze this evening talking about doomsday scenarios and the role government should play in helping to prepare the public for possible threats without inducing mass panic.
Bird flu. Terrorism. The MMR vaccine. vCJD. Major scares about public safety have become commonplace. Yet according to a recent report the world is safer now than it was in the 1960s. So are we living in an age of panic?
Tom will be on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze this evening talking about doomsday scenarios and the role government should play in helping to prepare the public for possible threats without inducing mass panic.
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