Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
We know that people worry about calamities that they see on TV way out of proportion to the real risks of those things happening. The oft-cited examples are plane crashes, child abduction, and shark attacks, when the bigger dangers are the car crashes, child abuse, and heart attacks that don’t make the news because they are more common.
But people are afraid of a large range of things, which is the subject of a new book by Lise Johnson and Eric Chudler, called Worried? Science Investigates Some of Life’s Common Concerns. An excerpt from the book looks at five substances and one cosmic event, detailing why we worry and what science tells us about the actual risk. One example is fluoride in drinking water. Conspiracy theorists will tell you fluoridated water is a government plot to control the population, while others just think adding chemicals to our water supply is a bad idea….The post You’re Definitely Worrying About the Wrong Things appeared first on FeedBox.