University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt has also warned about excessive fear mongering about gun ownership.
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Fear mongering and intellectual property concerns have already distracted our attention from taking efforts to secure critical infrastructure.
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Hopefully, once we stop the fear mongering on both sides we can finally get to the point of what makes sense.
When Caraway did well enough in the primary election to earn a spot in a runoff (which he lost), I wrote a column lamenting that the candidate found a market for his fear mongering and noting that the same was true for George Wallace.
But it's through rational deliberation, not fear-mongering, that we can devise policies that will accomplish this.
Its debt fear-mongering has probably discredited the idea of (necessary) long-term action on the debt.
And we will be ill-served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue.
Corn production, the current flavor of the week for Internet fear-mongering, has more than tripled since 1970.
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Democrats call such claims fear-mongering and say a public option is the best way to bring competition to the market.
But we need to stop fear-mongering about radiation because it hurts people.
That's not fear-mongering on his part, but hope (hope-mongering?) and prediction.
But while consumers may puzzle over the differing views of experts, they can be dangerously misled by activist NGOs whose agenda is baseless fear-mongering in the interest of fund-raising.
Answering the original blog post, I would suggest that the recent tragedy in Norway has something to do with squelching the xenophobic fear-mongering and distortion that might otherwise be present in right-wing media coverage of the English riots.
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Since Palm's announcement at CES this year, news surrounding the Pre has been a veritable whirlwind of activity: rumors, half-truths, hate, love, fear-mongering, fanboyism, rampant gadget-lust... and even a little late night celebrity for the pint-sized phone.
Thursday, top MBIA executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
Mr Brown seems to be fighting the last war: fear-mongering claims about spending cuts which worked in 2001 and 2005, when money was cascading into the Treasury and voters viewed the Tories as malign, are less persuasive at a time of record borrowing and sunnily rebranded opponents.
Thursday, top MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) executives tried to calm investor anxiety about the fate of the firm, saying the stock's plunge in the last year was an over-reaction to problems facing the industry and the result of "fear-mongering" and "distortions" by self-interested investors.
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