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EPISODE · Aug 11, 2013

The Manipulation of Our Fear

from Mic Check Radio · host Occupy the Media Collective

Way back in 1987 a government funded study, Perception of Risk, was published in the journal Science.  While the study is officially a look at how the general public evaluates and perceives risk, it also reads as a manual for the manipulation of the public's fear and the unrealistic desire to live in a "zero risk society". [Click to Listen]

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