True Warnings and False Alarms about Technology, 1948-1971

by ProfessorAllanMazur (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $39.33

  There is an agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause an increase of leukemia. Addressing one of the most vexing problems in risk policy, this book asks how we can tell, at an early stage, how seriously we should take a new warning.