Lenore Skenazy (Free-Range Kids) in the Washington Post on the urge to protect children from hot dogs and countless other statistically rare dangers. Quotes me on the litigation that led to the warning labels [Washington Post]
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by Walter Olson on March 1, 2010
Lenore Skenazy (Free-Range Kids) in the Washington Post on the urge to protect children from hot dogs and countless other statistically rare dangers. Quotes me on the litigation that led to the warning labels [Washington Post]
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I missed you. Glad it’s nothing worse than a power outage.
Bob
These constant “warnings” are the reason we have so much sickness and so many allergies these days. Mothers avoiding peanut butter while pregnant, kids being “sanitized” at every turn.
Immune systems need practice.
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