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« on: April 22, 2016, 09:58:39 AM »Nice post.
"Managing the risk of food allergy"
http://susannahfox.com/2016/07/31/managing-the-risk-of-food-allergy/
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Know This First: Risk Perception Is Always Irrational.
We need a post-Enlightenment definition of "rationality." Reason can take us only so far.
04.11.2016 / BY David Ropeik
http://undark.org/article/know-this-first-risk-perception-is-always-irrational/
"Managing the risk of food allergy"
http://susannahfox.com/2016/07/31/managing-the-risk-of-food-allergy/
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When our son was diagnosed with food allergies, we were absorbed into a new way of life, learning the folkways of keeping him safe.
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Actually, we are all managing risk. And there is a lot written about risk.
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Tweeted by @deborahblum
Know This First: Risk Perception Is Always Irrational.
We need a post-Enlightenment definition of "rationality." Reason can take us only so far.
04.11.2016 / BY David Ropeik
http://undark.org/article/know-this-first-risk-perception-is-always-irrational/
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It’s hard not to call them ignorant, selfish, and irrational, or to label such behavior, as some do — often with more than a hint of derision — “science denialism.”
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This arrogance is particularly common in the scientific, engineering, and academic communities — cultures that rest on the bedrock Enlightenment belief in reason and logic. This is curious — and an interesting example of science denialism in itself — because the scientific evidence, supported by countless examples from the real world, makes it inescapably clear that we are not the perfectly rational creatures we like to think we are.