The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner

Author:Barry Glassner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Basic Books

Emotional accounts being the stuff of TV talk shows, it is probably unreasonable to expect medical expertise to prevail in these forums. The clamor over breast implants raises profound questions, however, about whose voices, and which kinds of knowledge, are heard in fear-driven public policy debates. One of the greatest triumphs of anecdotes over science occurred at a federal regulatory agency whose express mission is to enact policies on the basis of scientific data. In 1992, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the use of silicone implants except for breast cancer patients willing to participate in research studies, the agency’s leaders made their decision not primarily in response to findings from medical science (the American Medical Association denounced the ban). Rather, the FDA banned implants in the wake of congressional hearings and TV talk shows where implanted women spoke poignantly of a variety of ailments from chronic fatigue to rheumatoid arthritis to cancer, all attributed to their implants. 35

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