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Dan Gardner

By Dan Gardner

Dan Gardner is the author of Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear and Future Babble, and co-author, with Philip Tetlock, of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. Gardner is also a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.

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Ontario premier Doug Ford makes announces $925-million in funding to expand Canada's vaccine manufacturing capacity with Sanofi Pasteur Ltd. on March 31, 2021. Nathan Denette/Canadian Press
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Dan Gardner: The ‘tombstone mentality’ abounds. Why do people need to die before we take action?

From complacency and inaction, we swing to panic and action, then slowly forget and return to complacency

Dan Gardner - Posted on April 12, 2021
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