Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth

Christopher Booker, the first editor of Private Eye, has since 1990 been a columnist on the Sunday Telegraph, where he has reported on all the scares covered in this book. His other books include The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. Dr Richard North was formerly a food safety consultant, involved in all the food scares covered in Part One of this book. After some years as a research director in the European Parliament, he is today a political analyst on eureferendum.com. His other books include The Great Deception, also co-authored with Christopher Booker.Booker, North is the author of 'Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth', published 2009 under ISBN 9780826476203 and ISBN 0826476201.