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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
A pandemic of fantasy flu
This year’s swine flu panic crowned a decade in which the gap between public-health scaremongering and reality was vast.
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| Tuesday 27 October 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Making a pig’s ear of the vaccination debate
People are right to be sceptical about the swine-flu scare, but it is telling – and worrying – that they focus their scepticism on swine-flu jabs.
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| Tuesday 11 August 2009 |
Greg Hollin
Sickened by modern farming?
Agriculture has provided great benefits to mankind, yet greens are keen to blame it for the swine flu pandemic.
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| Monday 20 July 2009 |
Frank Furedi
The fearmongers preying on pregnant women
It was only a matter of time before the swine-flu scare lobby turned its attention to those who are seen as an easy target for fear: mums-to-be.
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| Monday 6 July 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
When public health becomes a public nuisance
The bizarre advice given to us doctors on how to deal with swine flu confirms that top-down scaremongering is destroying medical practice.
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| Tuesday 12 May 2009 |
Tessa Mayes
Swine flu conspiracy theories go viral
Tessa Mayes reports from Mexico on how the government’s reaction to the outbreak is seen as evidence of political intrigue.
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| Tuesday 5 May 2009 |
Frank Furedi
What swine flu reveals about the culture of fear
Essay: As health officials tell us ‘all of humanity is under threat’, Frank Furedi provides a guide to today’s various species of scaremonger.
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| Tuesday 5 May 2009 |
Tessa Mayes
Putting Mexico in an isolation unit
Tessa Mayes reports from Mexico City on the country’s transformation into a diseased, pariah state.
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| Tuesday 5 May 2009 |
Tim Black
Avian history repeated as porcine farce
The swine flu scaremongers have no shame: four years ago they were making exactly the same wild claims about bird flu.
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| Thursday 30 April 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Swine flu: official panic is making things worse
The gap between the reality of swine flu and officialdom’s hysteria is widening every day, with potentially dangerous consequences.
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| Tuesday 28 April 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Swine flu and the dramatisation of disease
Recent events show that, while society has the scientific know-how to cope with outbreaks of flu, it still sees disease as a harbinger of apocalypse.
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| Tuesday 28 April 2009 |
Tessa Mayes
The day I was tested for swine flu
Tessa Mayes reports from Mexico City on what it's like to fall ill in the world capital of the new influenza strain.
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| Friday 9 February 2007 |
Mick Hume
Stop agonising over the pyrotechnic prig
On the mysterious letter-bomber and the bird flu outbreak: read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London) this week.
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| Thursday 8 February 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
A tale of two panics
Why are we in less of a flap about bird flu now that it has arrived in Britain than we were 18 months ago when it was a ‘spectre’ in Asia?
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| Thursday 13 April 2006 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Avian flu: this is not 1918
The discovery of a dead infected swan in Fife has led to warnings of another 1918-style flu epidemic. Let’s have some historical and scientific perspective.
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| Thursday 23 February 2006 |
Mick Hume
Bird flu and Chicken Little culture
Why are critics of the politics of fear turning into scaremongers about the threat of an avian flu pandemic?
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| Thursday 23 February 2006 |
Rob Lyons
Bird flu: an infectious panic
Even if bird flu does transform into a human pandemic, we are better placed to tackle it than ever before in history.
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| Friday 25 November 2005 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Pandemic flu: turning a drama into a crisis
UK health secretary Patricia Hewitt blames the ‘worried well’ for creating a shortage of flu vaccines. But who made the well worried?
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| Friday 14 October 2005 |
Brendan O’Neill
A tale of two scares
President Bush wants us to fear bin Laden; everyone else wants us to fear bird flu. We should tell both sets of apocalypse-mongers to get a grip.
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| Thursday 27 January 2005 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Fearing flu
Nobody knows whether or when there will be a new flu pandemic - but the panic about it is certainly bad for us.
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