Dr. Barry Dworkin

  • Sunday House Call, #784, April 4, 2021: The world as we see it.

    Dan Gardner, Keynote Speaker, New York Times bestselling author (Risk/The Science of Fear, Future Babble, Superforecasting), and consultant (http://tactix.ca) joins me to discuss the psychology of risk and decision-making joins the show to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, the AstraZeneca vaccine and more. A woman’s risk of a blood clot if they are on the birth…

  • Kids need exposure to risk within the framework of playing

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June ,10 2015 Source: Kids need scraped knees and risky play, study says  

  • Sunday House Call, #507, October 19, 2014 – Ebola risk in perspective with Dan Gardner

    Sunday House Call, #507, October 19, 2014   Topics today include:An interview with Dan Gardner, award-winning author of Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear”. We discuss the fear that had been generated by media reporting of Ebola in North America and the political and public reaction. Should we be surprised by the reaction? What psychology…

  • Underweight a risk to health greater than overweight? Not so fast.

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 31, 2014 Source: Study Finds Being Underweight is Riskier Than Being Overweight Reference: J-shapedness: an often missed, often miscalculated relation: the example of weight and mortality

  • School bans balls from playground to protect children from harm? and..Hep C: post hoc ergo propter hoc comes to the fore again

    Important Notice – Infection Prevention Lapse

  • Watching TV increases heart disease and cancer risk, study suggests

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 12, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Couch time may cut life short, study suggests Reference: Television Viewing Time and Mortality. The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab)

  • Our very human risk perception process

    Why is our society so risk-adverse when evidence suggests we are safer and healthier than ever before? How we form judgments about risk and the fact that we have both a conscious/rational mind and an unconscious mind that uses certain rules of thumb that can go very wrong? How do special interest groups and “health-fear…

  • Driving is still more risky than West Nile virus

    We are in the midst of a large-scale data collection and evaluation process of West Nile virus infection and outbreak in North America. Although West Nile virus affects other areas of the world like Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Tunisia, Morocco and South Africa among others, it is difficult to extrapolate their experience to the…

  • We can't let down our guard on disease control

    Times like these sharpen our attention to the frailties of life. The SARS outbreak illustrates the public perception of risk.When faced with a death rate of three to four per cent, we all want to be able to protect our family and friends from harm.