Risk

Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't - and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger

by Dan Gardner

2008 395 pages eng

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF. In 2003, a Home Office report stated that 68 British children have been abducted that year by a stranger. With 11.4 million children under 16 living in the UK, that works out to a risk of one in 167,647.158 people in Britain have died from the human varia…