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About the Author

Dan Gardner is a columnist and senior writer for the Ottawa Citizen. Trained in history and law, Gardner worked in politics as a senior policy adviser before turning to journalism. His writing has received numerous awards, including the National Newspaper Award and Amnesty International's Media Award. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Excellent ... Gardner analyses everything from the media's predilection for irrational scare stories to the cynical use of fear by politicians pushing a particular agenda ... A cheery corrective to modern paranoia
*Economist*

Terrific ... exceptionally good - has the clarity of Malcolm Gladwell
*Evening Standard*

Enlivening ... a fascinating insight into the peculiar and devastating nature of human fear
*Sunday Telegraph*

Stimulating ... where writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Francis Wheen have been content largely to enumerate the errors of less rational men and women, Dan Gardner has collated part of what we need to diagnose the problem
*Independent on Sunday*

Beautifully observed
*Observer*