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So in the name of protecting the public, and self-perpetuation, many advocacy groups go over the top with their alarms, leaving out information that might help us put the risk in perspective... and making us more afraid than the evidence warrants.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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So in the name of protecting the public, and self-perpetuation, many advocacy groups go over the top with their alarms, leaving out information that might help us put the risk in perspective... and making us more afraid than the evidence warrants.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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I thought I left some clues when I said that foundations tend to be focused on self-perpetuation rather than good works shortly after the founder dies.
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The observation that every society has elites, and those elites tend toward self-perpetuation rather that ideal justice for the other “classes” (however one defines the other), is prosaic in the extreme.
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So we have frog boiling, institutional dimension use leading to self-perpetuation, long time frames & secrecy leading to non-observation, Strategic Citizens.etc. Reply ymarsakar, on January 14, 2009 at 4: 56 pm Said:
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Nothing says “American Capitalism” like the self-perpetuation of a radically laissez-faire collection of corporations whose sole intent is to stifle labour rights, environmentalism, and social welfare in order to make a buck.
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So in the name of protecting the public, and self-perpetuation, many advocacy groups go over the top with their alarms, leaving out information that might help us put the risk in perspective... and making us more afraid than the evidence warrants.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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So in the name of protecting the public, and self-perpetuation, many advocacy groups go over the top with their alarms, leaving out information that might help us put the risk in perspective... and making us more afraid than the evidence warrants.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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So in the name of protecting the public, and self-perpetuation, many advocacy groups go over the top with their alarms, leaving out information that might help us put the risk in perspective... and making us more afraid than the evidence warrants.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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A society must emphasize self-perpetuation and making parenting easier is a necessary and laudable goal.
Layard and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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