Friday, August 29, 2008
Hyping Health Threats
Categories: Nanny State
Writing for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, R. Harold Brown argues that "the danger [to children from mercury poisoning] was never as grave as painted." He adds: "Nothing spoils an environmental health 'cause' like decreasing danger."
Indeed. Threats to health--whether from tobacco, transfats, or other factors--are grist for the mill of the nanny state.
- posted by John LaPlante
- 5:22 pm
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