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David Ropeik      

Consultant in Risk Perception, Harvard Instructor, Author & Journalist

David Ropeik is retired Harvard Instructor, author, and potter. He was a TV reporter for WCVB in Boston, twice winning the DuPont Columbia Award, often referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism.

He taught the psychology of risk perception at the Harvard School of Public Health, and was an international consultant in the communication of risk.

He is author of "How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match The Facts" and the forthcoming "Rethinking Our Fear of Cancer, How Excessive Worry About a Dread Disease Does Great Harm All by Itself" (in press Johns Hopkins University Press).

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Recognize the role of subjectivity when evaluating risk
Our ability to behave rationally depends not just on our ability to use the facts, but on our ability to give those facts meaning. To be rational, we need both facts and feelings. We need to be subjective.

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