[Marxism] A reply to Brian Baker on marxist.com

[David Picón Álvarez]

> Lewis Wolpert, in his recent book Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast,
> talks about 'virtual risks', those about which science is unsure - he
> includes global warming and BSE.

How is BSE a virtual risk when people have died of it? Now I'd be the first 
to admit that it is perhaps such a low risk that worrying about it is 
misallocation, and that the hysterical paranoia some people got about beef 
is completely unjustified, but the existence--if not the magnitude--of the 
risk is undeniable.

--David.