Word: ropeik
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...Given this much uncertainty about how it spreads and how virulent it is, and given questions about the availability of health care in affected regions, this seems cautious but appropriate,” said David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Risk Analysis...
...look back, and with the clarity of hindsight think its is an overreaction, but its still too uncertain to know,” Ropeik said...
Director of Risk Communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis at the SPH David P. Ropeik, who was one Harvard-affiliated presenter at the summit, was particularly impressed with the various perspectives included in the conference’s agenda...
...Ropeik, who presented “Risk Communication: Helping Keep Fear of Bioterrorism in Perspective,” said he was eager to participate in the conference because the importance of an individual’s emotional response to terrorism is often overlooked in the discussion of bioterrorism...
...discussion about how to deal with terrorism overlooks the science of risk perception, which is the way humans decide what to be afraid of and how afraid to be,” Ropeik said. “The terror of terrorism poses very real risks. It was made quite clear that this is not a theoretical exercise; this is a real world exercise, and I am heartened as a citizen to see all that is being done...