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In the Interests of Safety has debunked some of the myths that blight our lives - The Sun [In the Interests of Safety] tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common sense - The Times In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses - Literary Review [An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture - BBC Focus

In the Interests of Safety has debunked some of the myths that blight our lives -- Jane Moore The Sun [In the Interests of Safety] tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common sense The Times In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences ... In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses -- Michael Bywater Literary Review [An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture BBC Focus

[An] excellent, sceptical take on safety culture * BBC Focus * In this book Tracey Brown and Michael Hanlon take on the large, profitable and growing 'security industry' and expose its foolishness, its impotence and, most worryingly, its tendency to inflict unintended consequences . . . In the Interests of Safety challenges innumerable assumptions and foolishnesses -- Michael Bywater * Literary Review * [In the Interests of Safety] tells you how to stand up to a jobsworth with knowledge, courtesy and common sense * The Times * In the Interests of Safety has debunked some of the myths that blight our lives -- Jane Moore * The Sun *

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Michael Hanlon is a London-based science journalist and author who writes regularly for national newspapers as well as The Spectator and New Scientist. Michael is the author of five popular science books, including: The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ten Questions Science Can't Answer Yet and Eternity: Our Next Billion Years. Michael has participated in a gorilla rescue in Congo, become thoroughly lost in central Borneo and experienced a zero-gravity astronaut training flight over the Nevada desert. He finally saw the light about climate change after a swim in a melt-water lake a mile up on the Greenlandic icecap. Tracey Brown is the Director of Sense About Science, a charity that campaigns for better evidence in public debate and policy making in the UK, and world-wide through international collaboration. She has led award-winning national campaigns to defend sound research and to stop misleading medical claims and, through Sense About Science, is currently challenging the routine concealment of clinical trial data by medical drug development companies. Tracey has contributed to books and journals on science, policy and the public, including Better Science Communication and comments regularly in newspapers, magazines, events and broadcasts.

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