As you may be aware, in May 2003 spiked held a conference at London's Royal
Institution entitled PANIC ATTACK: INTERROGATING OUR OBSESSION WITH RISK.
The conference brought together an international audience to assess the
spread of risk aversion into ever-more spheres of life.

I thought you might be interested in the proceedings and related material
from the conference that have been published to date.

 - CHALLENGING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
   by Helene Guldberg

   How has society come to be governed by the maxim 'better safe than
sorry'?
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DE2F.htm

 - WHO WANTS TO LIVE UNDER A SYSTEM OF ORGANISED PARANOIA?
   by Mick Hume

   The principle of safety first has become the major barrier to social
advance.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DDA5.htm

 - PANIC ATTACK
   by Helene Guldberg

   spiked's London conference debated the dangers of risk-aversion.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DD9B.htm

 - SCIENCE, RISK AND THE PRICE OF PRECAUTION
   by Sandy Starr

   The scientific community imagines what society would have lost, had the
'precautionary principle' governed science in the past.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DD7A.htm

 - RISKY LIVING
   by Professor Sir Colin Berry

   Why do we fear things that are as rare as getting struck by lightning?
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DDFE.htm

 - DOWN WITH THE 'SLIPPERY SLOPE' ARGUMENT
   by Mick Hume

   The prevalence of this nonsense speaks volumes about society's loss of
faith in the human subject.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DE27.htm

 - SCARING INTO SPACE
   by Helene Guldberg

   A new book by Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, gives humanity a 50/50
chance of survival.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DDB4.htm

 - APOCALYPSE FROM NOW ON
   by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

   SARS has become a blank screen on to which the world can project its
fears.
   http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DD71.htm

Sandy Starr
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