Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:
Various Scares
- Facts versus Fears: A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times
- How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health
- Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of "Consumer Activist"
- Double Standard in Environmental Science
- Environmental False Alarms
- Low-Level Environmental Terrorism
- Whatever You Do, Don't Forget to Panic
- Heartland President Addresses Common-Sense
Environmentalism
- Welcome to “Apocaholics Anonymous”
- Now for the
Good News
- Earth Day 2008: Predictions of Environmental Disaster Were Wrong
- Doom Kills
- Environmental Movement Has Lost Its Way
- Busting Myths about Plastics
- Scary Year
- Environmental Scares Exposed One-By-One
- What Is the Real Scientific Consensus on Pesticides?
- Greenpeace: A Long History of Poor Judgment
- Common-Sense Environmentalism
- Green Activists Hurt the World's Poor
- When Will We Tire of the Fear Mongers?
- Regulations Cause Unintended Consequences
- Science Proves Chemical Fears Unfounded
- Greens Add Food Production to Their Hit List
- Starbucks Protestors Spread False Fears about Safe Foods
- Regulation By Speculation
- 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List
- Welcome to Nannyfornia
- Warning Labels Everywhere, And Not One Makes Sense
- Dr. Joe To The Rescue!
- Bread Is Bad
- False Alarms and Climate Change
- The World is Coming to an End
- The Chemical Scare: Are Politics Driving the Fear?
- Of Mice and Men
- Handle with Care
- Endocrine Disrupters, Politics, Pesticides, the Cost of Food and Health
- Health Scares Ahead
- Doomsday Postponed
- Holiday Meals Rife with (Safe) Carcinogens!
- Greens' War Against All Chemicals Will Do Little To Reduce Our Risks
- Unfounded Health Scares Proliferated in '08
- Earth Day Predictions of 1970. The Reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day Predictions of 2009
- Polar Bears are Not Dying Out, say Scientists in Book on Popular 'Scare Stories'
- Eco-Nuts Out to Destroy Life As We Know It
- Nocebo Effect: Think Sick and You’ll Be Sick
- Environmental Groups – Bogus Information
- Time for Next Eco-Scare Already?! As Global Warming Movement Collapses, Activists Already 'Test-Marketing' the Next Eco-Fear! 'Laughing Gas' Crisis? Oxygen Crisis? Plastics?
- Our Chemophobia Conundrum
- Are Children More Vulnerable to Environmental Chemicals?
- Crying Wolf about 'Chemicals' and Cancer
- Traces of Environmental Chemicals in the Human Body: Are They a Risk to Health?
- We Are the World’s Healthiest Chemophobes
- Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
- Pass the Methyl Eugenol
- Big Green Bus has flat tires
- Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts
- The high costs of 50 years of pesticide paranoia
- New study pregnant with anti-chemical quackery
- Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science
- Lawsuits make us less safe
- Nuclear vs climate change: the clash of the alarmists
- Past Alarmism and the Future of Manmade Global Warming
- How Washington pays Big Green to sue the government
- What’s in My Makeup Bag?
- Eradicating West Nile virus would have been easy — in 1999
- Fears over No More Tears
- A big stink about nothing
- The True Story of Cosmetics
- A history of scientific alarms
- Junk reporting meets junk science
- Politics trumps science as Senators pass Safe Chemical Act — latest chemical “reform”
- Paranoid much? You have plenty of company
- Green Fatigue – Are People Finally Tired Of Being Scared?
- ACSH’s Top 10 Health Scares of 2014
- No, Stephen Hawking, We Won't Have To Abandon Earth In 100 Years
- California's enacted and potential bans: From internal combustion engines to plastic bags
- Obesity Linked To 40 Percent Of Cancers
- 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year
- Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking
Books
- Apocalyptics: Cancer and the Big Lie : How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer by Edith Efron
- The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment by Julian L. Simon (especially Chapter 18)
- Science Under Siege: Balancing Technology and the Environment by Michael Fumento
- Scared to
Death by Christopher Booker and Richard North
- Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns by Jay H. Lehr
- The Really Inconvenient Truths by Iain Murray
- Green: The New Color of Catastrophe
- Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams by Steven J. Milloy
- Greener Than Thou by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
- Julian Simon’s Book Masterfully Explains Flaws of Alarmism
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