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You've Been Had!: How the Media and Environmentalists Turned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs - Hardcover
With all of the negative media about environmental threats over the last four decades, is it any wonder that most people believe disaster is just around the corner? But despite what the media would lead us to believe, annual reports from the Surgeons General show that Americans are the healthiest they have ever been, are becoming healthier and are, in fact, the healthiest people on the planet.
In You’ve Been Had!, Melvin Benarde aims to set the record straight and counteract the culture of complaint and worry with an unbiased account of the scientific facts — facts which suggest we are worried and frightened about the wrong things. Contrary to what the media would have us believe, he argues that the environmental factors that most adversely affect our health are those that are within our power to alter, such as smoking, diet, drugs, stress, guns speed, exercise, and basic safety precautions. Topics covered include: carcinogens and anti- carcinogens; dietary supplements and neutraceuticals; food safety, pasteurization and irradiation; genetically modified foods; microbial threats to health; hazardous and toxic waste; radiation and skin cancer; global warming; risk-taking; obesity, asthma, violence and longevity. Benarde also looks at the ways the media reports science and evidence-based medicine.
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Melvin A. Benardeis the author of nine books, includingOur Precarious HabitatandGlobal Warning/Global Warming. He is the former director of the Asbestos/Lead Center at Temple University and former associate director of the Environmental Studies Institute at Drexel University.
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"Many in the scientific community are horribly frustrated by the distortions disseminated by self-appointed citizens' groups and slavishly repeated in the media, in spite of their very minimal scientific competence. In confronting these views and exposing their inadequacies, You've Been Had! performs a very important public service." - Bernard L. Cohen, professor of physics, University of Pittsburgh
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- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0813530504
- ISBN 13 9780813530505
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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