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Article: Expert advice is the new terror - has scaremongering gone too far?
- Article from:
- Marketing Week
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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Scientific 'truths' change daily, and when the worst danger of all is said to be over-population, we begin to wonder, 'Do they want us to live or die?'
Terror is a luxury of an advanced civilisation. I do not mean the kind of terror wrought by bearded extremists who blend chapati flour with industrial fertiliser in the upstairs rooms of social housing, but rather the variety practised as an adjunct to their trade by experts in other fields.
Those whom we are used to describing as primitive peoples get by without experts and suffer less terror as a result. True, their lives are not without fear. Crocodiles, snakes and other nasty creatures are an ...