Think from KERA

Why We’re Afraid Of The Wrong Things (And Why That Hurts Us)


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Thousands of people die each year from the flu – yet most people fear it far less than relatively rare viruses such as Ebola. Sasha Abramsky joins host Krys Boyd to explain why we often let our anxieties override sound reasoning, which he writes about in “Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.”
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