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February 6, 2025, edition of Fox News' America Reports
JOHN ROBERTS (ANCHOR): So Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana who writes about this in the National Review. He says in part, numerous studies show human beings are happier and healthier when employed. Long-term joblessness associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease, depression, and anxiety. One study even recommended employment as a quote critical mental health intervention.
He says there are 15 million able-bodied adults without children on Medicaid who could probably reenter the workforce. This is kind of like the idea that we saw back in the Clinton administration of welfare to work.
DR. MARC SIEGEL (FOX CONTRIBUTOR): Or bridge to jobs. And I completely agree with everything you just said. It is 15 million that have been identified, John.
In the Trump 1 administration 13 states received approval for just this kind of program and another 9 were applying for it when the Biden administration came in and nixed it. So, this is something on the table for a while.
I agree with the issue it improves health. I also think, by the way, that's its tied in with something else you are going to ask me about, which is people using Medicaid in the wrong way. They might have a way to make money, but they don’t tie it in with their health insurance so essentially Medicaid is part of a nanny state.
You know, the vast majority of people in this country get their insurance by working for it and they are proud of it and might even take a job a little less and they want in order to get the health insurance to provide for their family. With Medicaid it's uncoupled and the federal government pays 70% of Medicaid across the board, so even though it's a state-administered program to a large extent it is a federally-funded program and fraud and abuse and misuse of Medicaid is a federal crime.
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October 18, 2024, edition of Fox News' America Reports
SANDRA SMITH (HOST): It almost sounded silly at first, but this is a very real thing. People are feeling anxious, they're feeling stressed. It's difficult to have cocktail conversations or a chat by the water cooler because so many people are fearing offending someone, right Dr. Siegel?
MARC SIEGEL (GUEST): Absolutely, Sandra. Look, this is a very tense election but it turns out election anxiety has been going on for time in memorial. What's different is more iPhone, more media coverage, more social media and obviously a very contentious election. I spoke to Dr. Kevin Smith, who's the head of -- who's a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska and he said it's like fight or flight reaction, which I wrote about in one of my books, where literally you're stressed and you want to fight or you want to flee but you can't, and you can't really unplug, and you feel the stress hormone release. Very unhealthy. But what's really interesting is Dr. Smith said it's not all created equal. Democrats and people on the left are more anxious than those on the right.
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Well, there's always exercise and there's always eating right and sleeping right. But what's fascinating here is that young people and, again, people on the left are bringing more anxiety to the table to begin with, according to Dr. Smith. And I would suspect that the answer might be alternate activities, like I said. But I'm sure you remember the movie Clockwork Orange. What about desensitization therapy, Sandra? What about putting up a picture of someone you hate and gradually getting you used to it by playing beautiful music in your ear?
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who Is Marc Siegel? Doctor and Fox News Contributor to Conduct Medical Evaluation of Trump On-Air
Published Oct 09, 2020
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Dr. Marc Siegel, a practicing internist and Fox News contributor, will speak to President Donald Trump on Friday for his first on-camera interview since testing positive for the coronavirus last week.
Siegel "will conduct a medical evaluation and interview" during Tucker Carlson Tonight, according to Fox News. The doctor, 64, is a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine. He is also a provider at NYU's Langone Health, an academic medical center.
Siegel specializes in internal medicine and treats conditions such as influenza, according to his faculty biography. He completed his residency at NYU in 1988 and was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1991.
He has authored several books and academic articles, including one published in the Missouri Medicine journal in 2014, "The Death of the Bedside Manner: ObamaCare Is Speeding the Decline in the Quality of Medical Practice."
"Patients still have the expectation that their doctor will be patient and listen carefully, but one by one doctors and patients are awakening from that comforting vision of the past to the rushed, restricted world of the ObamaCare future," Siegel writes in the article. He goes on to explain that "the new law brings more regulations and low-quality insurance at a time when we are already struggling to comply with the electronic health-record mandate."
Dr. Andrew Brotman, Dr. Robert Grossman, Ken Langone and Dr. Marc Siegel speak as SiriusXM and NYU Langone Health celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Doctor Radio channel on February 27, 2018. Siegel, a practicing... More Cindy Ord/Getty
Friday's conversation will not be the first time Siegel and Trump have spoken one-on-one. The doctor conducted a July 22 interview with the president on Tucker Carlson Tonight, where they discussed the coronavirus pandemic and a possible vaccine timeline.
"I watch you all the time," Trump told a smiling Siegel. "You're almost like my guide to this, 'cause frankly you really have a good take on it."
Siegel and Trump seem to have similar stances on the virus. The doctor's latest book, COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, will be published October 13. In it, he asserts that "it is possible for a massive pandemic and the fear and hysteria over that pandemic to exist simultaneously."
"Unfortunately, effective public health measures are compromised by both hysteria and denial," Siegel writes. "When we are afraid, fear hijacks our brain and we don't think rationally. The purpose of this book is to help us overcome our worries as well as vanquish the virus."
Trump echoed a similar message in a video he filmed moments after leaving the Walter Reed medical center on Monday night, where he was hospitalized for his coronavirus infection.
"I learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing that's for certain: Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it. You're gonna beat it," Trump said. "We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently."
Many people criticized the president's message, questioning why he would discourage fear when more than 211,000 Americans have died as a result of COVID-19.
Siegel, speaking Tuesday on Fox News, defended Trump's words. "I like it. In the face of disease, it's saying, 'Show strength, show courage,'" the doctor said.
"Courage in the face of illness, that's what we look for. How can that be disturbing?" Siegel said. "We want this message: This virus is very troubling, it's problematic, but you have to live with it. We have to deal with it. That's a very uplifting message and extremely appropriate, and it's what physicians want to see."
Since being released from the hospital Monday, Trump has done two phone interviews—one with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo Tuesday and one with Fox News' Sean Hannity Thursday night. In the most recent interview, Trump had a raspier voice and paused to cough or clear his throat a few times, Mediaite reported.
Americans have been left with few answers about Trump's exact health status, particularly as the crucial November 3 election approaches. Dr. Sean Conley, the president's physician, released a letter Thursday clearing Trump to return to public engagements this weekend.
"Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President's safe return to public engagements at that time," Conley said in his letter.
Trump's Fox interview with Siegel will air at 8 p.m. Friday. The president will appear on camera remotely from the White House and Siegel will tune in from New York, according to a press release.
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Marc K. Siegel is an American physician, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, author, and contributor to The Hill, The Wall Street Journal, *Slate*, Fox News, and member of the board of contributors at USA Today.[1][2] He is the medical director of NYU's Doctor Radio on Sirius XM.[3]
Career
Siegel received his medical degree in 1985 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 1988 at the New York University Medical Center.[3] He is board certified in internal medicine.[4]
Books and media commentary
Infectious disease and public health
Swine flu, SARS, and avian influenza outbreaks
In his books, columns, and interviews, Siegel suggested differentiated responses to infectious disease outbreaks, such as the swine flu, SARS, and avian influenza outbreaks. As a result, he has at times praised and at times criticized public health officials and the press for what he considered fearmongering about, or excessive focus on, certain outbreaks, arguing that resources should be directed toward other health threats.[5][6] He has written three books promoting this view: False Alarm: the Truth About the Epidemic of Fear (2005),[7] Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic (2006),[5] and Swine Flu: The New Pandemic (2009).[8] Siegel promoted his book False Alarm in a September 2005 appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.[9]
In 2001, Siegel recommended that individuals focus their health efforts based on the most likely ailments, rather than those that generate the most media. At the time, bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") was generating headlines, but the average American woman faced a 1-in-3 lifetime chance of heart disease, a much higher risk. Siegel suggested focusing on everyday interventions that can produce large health impacts, rather than media-driven fears.[10]
During the 2009 outbreak of Swine flu, Siegel was a proponent of administering Tamiflu to children at summer camps "where there have been large, confirmed outbreaks" in order to stop the spread; Siegel said that he respectfully disagreed with the CDC's guidance to limit the use of Tamiflu in camps when lives could be saved with more aggressive treatments.[11]
COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Siegel frequently appeared in media where he at times questioned the changing CDC guidelines and at times supported them.[12] In January 2020, he "urge[d] people not to travel to China";[13] the following month he reported from the quarantine center where infected people from the Diamond Princess were in isolation, stating that "the virus appears to be more contagious than the flu and therefore very difficult to contain" and described PPE in use.[14]
In a March 2020 appearance on Fox News's Hannity, Siegel stated that, based on the declining case count in China at the time, COVID-19 "should be compared to the flu."[15][16][17] A study by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Dolores Albarracín, published in the peer-reviewed Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review in April 2020, identified Siegel's statement as part of a broader set of COVID-19 misinformation "circulating in conservative media."[16][18]
In July 2021, Siegel interviewed Dr. Fauci on SiriusXM's Doctor Radio, during which Dr. Fauci noted that masking may be required into 2022 to protect the vulnerable.[19] In a 2022 interview with Siegel, Dr. Fauci discussed future boosters.[20][21] In July 2021, Siegel urged TV viewers to get vaccinated, noting in a TV appearance that "the vaccine works extremely well even against the delta variant, preventing infection in 90 percent of cases."[22] In August 2021, Siegel advocated for wider availability of booster shots as a means to provide enhanced protection to broader groups.[23]
Siegel's 2020 book, COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, juxtaposes the meaningful scientific advancements in medicine of the last decades with the role of the media and politics in stoking extreme "doom and gloom" fears. The book examines technology that, prior to the pandemic, led to the healthiest and safest period in human history, and compares that to the decision-making process early in the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it, stating "Dr. Siegel’s chief argument is hard to dismiss: that fear, encouraged by a news media obsessed with doom and misery, has impelled public-health experts ... to impose draconian policies and ordinary Americans either to exaggerate or ignore moderately serious problems like Covid-19."[24][25]}:
Siegel at times praised parts of each of President Donald Trump's and President Joe Biden's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.[12][26][27]
2022 monkeypox outbreak
During the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, Siegel praised the U.S. CDC for making changes to public health guidance that increased the likelihood of controlling the virus. He also praised improvements in real-time data collection that allowed refinements to public health messaging, an improvement over prior diseases. He urged faster distribution of vaccines and treatments to the hardest-hit areas.[28]
Other public health topics
Siegel also compared the sanitation and rodent control of New York City and Los Angeles during the COVID pandemic, noting that New York was improving from its early-COVID proliferation of garbage, but Los Angeles was not. He predicted that these differences would lead to a difference in public health outcomes.[29]
Following the on-field cardiac arrest of Damar Hamlin and his subsequent recovery, Siegel compared the power of positive stories to unite the country with the divisiveness of DC politics, in particular the fight over the election of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.[30]
Affordable Care Act
Siegel criticized President Barack Obama over portions of his Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care reform legislation because Siegel believed the legislation would result in narrower networks, increased deductibles, and reduced access to care.[31] In 2017, Siegel wrote an op-ed in The New York Times that criticized the ACA and its essential health benefits provision (which he described as "an overstuffed prix fixe meal filled with benefits like maternity and mental health coverage") and praised the Republican legislation to repeal the ACA.[32] During the repeal debate, Siegel supported Republican legislation that would limit "the menu of essential benefits" and instead create subsidized "high-risk pools" for uninsured patients with pre-existing conditions, although he also opposed "drastic cuts to Medicaid" supported Medicare expansion based on the success shown in Indiana and Ohio, and urged increased interstate competition for insurers.[32]
In 2018, Siegel published an opinion piece in support of the Affordable Care Act's requirement that restaurants make calorie information available to diners, noting studies that suggest calorie labeling can reduce intake by 30-40 calories daily, which adds up to a weight change of 3 to 5 pounds per year.[33]
Presidential candidate health
During the Trump administration, Siegel interviewed then-President Trump about topics including his health, during which Trump described a cognitive evaluation as requiring him to remember "person, woman, man, camera, TV." The phrase later became a meme. The interview was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as prompting a "six-minute meander through Trump’s thicket of self-diagnosis, during which the president mentioned China, Russia, Ukraine, judicial appointments, the Twenty-fifth Amendment, and, most notably, his ability to recite a string of five words while under observation by medical experts."[34]
Siegel advocates for public release of presidential candidate health records. Siegel reviewed the medical records of Senator John McCain during his 2000 presidential campaign, among others.[35] In September 2016, Siegel urged then-candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to release their health records, noting Trump's weight and diet created risks regarding his ability to serve.[36] In Fox News appearances during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, he urged the release of health records of candidate Hillary Clinton, in order to evaluate her physical fitness for office.[37][38][39]
In a USA Today opinion piece published April 2015, Siegel compared the public release of Senator John McCain's health records during his presidential campaign to Secretary Clinton's refusal to release hers.[40] A further piece also published in April, this time in the Washington Times, repeated similar comparisons to past candidates’ disclosures.
Siegel has repeatedly ridden with President George W. Bush in his Warrior 100k annual three-day mountain bike ride, where they discussed the role of endurance exercise in healing physical wounds and behavioral challenges.[41]
In 2018, Barbara Bush entered hospice after ceasing aggressive treatment for lung and heart disease. Siegel said her choice showed "fortitude [and] courage."[42] Similarly, when President Carter entered hospice care in 2023, Siegel discussed the legacy left by Carter as well as the opportunity to educate the public regarding palliative care.[43]
Mind-body connection and healing
The mind-body problem refers to the challenge of reconciling neuro-physiology and consciousness in the human mind and brain. In The Inner Pulse: Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health (2011),[44] Siegel describes medical miracles and posits a perceptible but ineffable and immeasurable "essential life force" "where the physical and the spiritual combine," advising readers to engage in practices to strengthen and focus it for use in overcoming disease and healing. It was reviewed in Publishers Weekly as "an intriguing approach to the mind/body conundrum."[45]
Host of Doctor Radio Reports on SiriusXM
Siegel has hosted the SiriusXM radio show Doctor Radio Reports[46] twice a week since March 2020, focusing on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of public health efforts to neutralize it. He is the medical director of Doctor Radio.[47]
Personal life
Siegel was born on June 15, 1956, in New York. He is married to Ludmilla Luda Siegel, who is a physician and neurologist. They have three children.
Siegel is Jewish and cites the Oath of Maimonides as a medical ethics influence.[31]
Education
He attended East Meadow High School. Following high school, he went to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1974 to 1978. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1985 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 1988 at New York University Medical Center.[48][unreliable source]
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Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 Epidemic
People are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new medical dangers, economic suffering and grave uncertainty about the world around us. The collateral damage is enormous, but politics invade perception. There are so many unknowns. Does a treatment work? Is a vaccine coming? How likely are you to catch COVID and how can you best protect yourself and your family? What are the real risks and what is hysteria? Where are our fear leaders? What are their agendas?
From Fox News Medical Contributor and the author of False Alarm (Wiley, 2008) comes COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science by Marc Siegel, M.D. This shocking exposé of the facts as the media covers the national pandemic news and spread of the invisible virus reinforces the notion that we must arm ourselves against fear tactics that limit our abilities to safely make decisions and protect our families in a world of uncertainty.
Life for citizens of the developed world before the pandemic was safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history thanks to modern medicine, science, technology, and intelligence—but COVID-19 has stolen that security and our nation's peace of mind. Now there is a pandemic virus, as well as a crippling epidemic of fear sweeping America. Why? The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we already lived in an artificially created culture of fear that was just waiting to be unleashed. In COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear: government, the media, and our own psyche. With fascinating, blow-by-blow analyses of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, compounded now by the worst contagion of our lifetimes, he shows how fear mongers manipulate our most primitive instincts—often without our even realizing it. COVID shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria, inoculate ourselves against these crippling fear tactics, and develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives, even as we battle the pandemic itself.
Editorial Reviews
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“Marc Siegel is the first person we go to when we’ve got questions about medicine and science . . . This is the first book I’d read about COVID.” —Tucker Carlson, national broadcaster and bestselling author
“Dr. Marc Siegel is the nation’s doctor when it comes to expertly addressing the pandemic.” —Mark Levin, national broadcaster and bestselling author
Praise for Dr. Marc Siegel
“Dr. Siegel, always good to talk with you—especially at a difficult time when we need to get the facts out to the American people. We talk about a pandemic of virus, but you and I also always talk about the fact that there is a pandemic of misinformation out there . . . thank you for the work that you’ve done to help people better understand a disease that quite frankly changes and humbles us each and every day.” —Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P. H., Surgeon General of the United States
“I just want to thank you Dr. Siegel. You’ve played a really important role in helping to educate the American public with really balanced, scientific, factual information and that’s very important.” —Alex Azar, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
“Thank you for all you do. It is such an important role you play in getting the information out and getting it out accurately and motivating both our own professional physicians but the public at large to embrace these important public health measures—particularly vaccination.” —Robert Redfield, M.D., Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers." —John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say." —Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, The New Yorker
“You’ve really been the model for health education nationally.” —Martin Adel Makary, M.D, M.P. H., Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine and bestselling author
“[Dr. Siegel is] a straight shooter here. You’re not going to mix your words. You’re not going to pull your punches. It is what is it and I think it’s a great form to get the public health messages out.” —Brett Giroir, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health
Review
“I watch you all the time and you’re . . . like my guide to this because, frankly, you really have a good take on it. You know how important it is." —President Donald Trump on Dr. Marc Siegel
About the Author
Marc Siegel M.D., is a leading medical expert on the global Covid-19 pandemic and the chief medical analyst for FOX News. President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview, calls Dr. Siegel one of his primary “guides” to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Siegel is a member of the board of contributors at USA Today, a columnist for The Hill, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and the medical director for Doctor Radio on SiriusXM. Dr. Siegel is also the author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear, The Inner Pulse: Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health, the novel Bellevue, as well as other books on flu. With over 30 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Siegel has written extensively on health, outbreaks and pandemics.
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From Publishers Weekly
[Signature]Reviewed by Bob KerreyI write these words on the very day that multiple bombings occurred on London's transit system. It is hard not to feel personally threatened, particularly when the aftermath becomes the focus of worldwide attention and nonstop media coverage. And therein, unfortunately, lies the power of such destruction, as the terrorists well know.After such news, we are reminded yet again of the fragility of life and the depth of love we feel for friends and family. We offer grave concern and heartfelt prayers for the dead and injured. We vow to find better ways to heighten security. We do what we can to calm ourselves and not be overtaken by fear physiology.In these days of great uncertainty, it is reassuring to learn that some of our worst-case scenarios will not necessarily come true.
Such is the premise of Dr. Siegel's False Alarm.To put alarmist tendencies in perspective: over 58,000 soldiers died or were missing in action in Vietnam; on average over one million people are killed annually—and another 50 million injured—in traffic accidents around the world. In the United States, traffic accidents remain the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 35.Though it is little consolation to anyone understandably concerned about their loved ones in today's climate, it is nonetheless true that the likelihood of being involved in a terrorist incident is remarkably low. One is more likely to get killed crossing the street.Affected as we all were by the events of September 11, and subsequently inspired to study "the process by which dangers were manufactured and provoked," Siegel has compiled a remarkable response to what he calls our "newfound vulnerability" and the "ongoing doom-and-gloom of the daily news."
The title of Siegel's exploration, False Alarm, is a powerful, provocative and well-chosen oxymoron. Highly qualified and deeply motivated, Siegel has conducted an intensive and much needed study of the ramifications of living in a time of pervasive fear, when we are constantly threatened with the prospect of biological and/or nuclear warfare.With so much attention paid to that which we cannot control, it is easy to lose sight of, and neglect, behavioral and lifestyle choices that clearly impact the quality of our lives. In addition, important, global health issues tend to get swept under the rug, while hysteria multiplies. Legitimate concerns go unaddressed, and valuable resources are wasted.Siegel has done us a great service. His thorough research illuminates the biological, political, psychological and sociological facets of this important topic, and offers an alternative to the current landscape of perpetual high drama and pathological fear. I enthusiastically endorse his efforts, and urge readers to take his message to heart. This is a terrific and groundbreaking book. (Aug. 26)Bob Kerrey is president of The New School, a former governor and senator from Nebraska, and member of the 9/11 Commission.
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Review
"Anthrax, vaccine shortages, and SARS, oh my! Americans have been pummeled with an endless series of apparent threats. Siegel makes a passionate argument that the only thing we have to fear is, indeed, our own paranoia. Reason, he says, is the best vaccination for this epidemic." (Psychology Today, September/October 2005)
"Marc Siegel tries to reduce the hysteria quotient with a straightforward recitation of facts and statistics. Recalling the famous Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," Siegel tries all too sensibly (and one suspects futilely) to assess risk accurately and respond only to "plausible" threats such as the vulnerability of our container ships or "loose nukes" in former Soviet republics." (Benamin Barber, Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2005)
Review
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say." –Jerome Groopman, MD, staff writer, The New Yorker
"In this masterful and provocative work, Dr. Marc Siegel, an accomplished physician and author, skillfully dissects our present-day culture of fearmongering. An engaging and readable blend of science, politics, and social criticism, False Alarm--fully supported by extensive research--is an eloquently written and unflinching exploration of fear (real and imagined) in the modern world. Most importantly, Siegel exposes how government officials, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry exploit--and spread--fear for profit and power. They all should be scared of this powerful book." -- David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation
"False Alarm asks an important question about threats from bioterrorism and emerging diseases: when should we be afraid? Siegel cuts through the hype about the "deadly" this and the "lethal" that, and applies reason in seeking the answers. Those who think for themselves will find useful guidance here."--John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
"Relax and put away your duct tape. In exposing the phony politics of fear, Dr. Marc Siegel proves that things aren’t as bleak as they seem. The only thing to fear is fear itself."-*-Bill Press, Former Host, CNN’s "Crossfire"*
"A passionate aria that puts Marc Siegel stage center in the Anti-Hysteria chorus. As both an empathetic doctor and a shrewd observer of popular culture, Siegel updates that 1950s truism: Watching TV can be injurious to health...especially if you believe the hype about imminent terrorist threats and fearsome potential epidemics. False Alarm is a color-coded burst of sanity amid the fear and frenzy of 21st Century America."-- Walter Shapiro, author of One-Car Caravan
From the Inside Flap
Life today for citizens of the developed world is far safer, easier, and healthier than for any other people in history. Modern medicine has all but wiped out many diseases that once were common killers. Science and technology have given us countless devices that protect our bodies from injury, secure our property, and warn us of impending disaster. And modern intelligence gathering can pinpoint threats to our domestic security as they arise. So why is an epidemic of fear sweeping America?
The answer, according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, is that we live in an artificially created culture of fear. From the anthrax panic to the SARS "epidemic," from "official" rumors of bioterror to Orange alerts to West Nile virus?the media continually bombard us with breaking news of yet another super-bug, terrorist plot, or natural disaster that's about to wreak havoc. Most of the time the disasters never materialize. But even if they did, the odds that any of us would suffer harm from them is infinitesimally small?especially when compared to the much greater risks of dying in a car accident or from coronary heart disease.
In False Alarm, Siegel identifies three major catalysts of the culture of fear?government, the media, and big pharma. And, with the help of fascinating, blow-by-blow analyses of some of the most sensational false alarms of the past few years, he shows how those big three fearmongers manipulate our most primitive instincts?often without our even realizing it?to promote their political agendas, boost their ratings, and sell their products.
In his role as a dedicated healer, Siegel offers his prescription for inoculating ourselves against fear tactics. He shows us how to look behind the hype and hysteria and helps us to develop the emotional and intellectual skills needed to take back our lives from fearmongers.
From the Back Cover
Advance Praise for False Alarm
"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say."
Jerome Groopman, M.D., staff writer, The New Yorker
"A passionate aria that puts Marc Siegel center stage in the Anti-Hysteria chorus. As both an empathetic doctor and a shrewd observer of popular culture, Siegel updates that 1950s truism: watching TV can be injurious to health . . . especially if you believe the hype about imminent terrorist threats and fearsome potential epidemics. False Alarm is a color-coded burst of sanity amid the fear and frenzy of twenty-first century America."
Walter Shapiro, author of One-Car Caravan
"A brave, insightful, and ultimately wise exposé of how the government and corporations rev up our fear to lethal levels d istracting us from our true needs, and the needs of the world. A 'good doctor' indeed."
Samuel Shem, M.D., author of The House of God
"In this masterful and provocative work, Dr. Marc Siegel, an accomplished physician and author, skillfully dissects our present-day culture of fearmongering. An engaging blend of science, politics, and social criticism, False Alarm fully supported by extensive research exposes how government officials, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry exploit and spread fear for profit and power. They all should be scared of this powerful book."
David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation
"False Alarm asks an important question about threats from bioterrorism and emerging diseases: when should we be afraid? Siegel cuts through the hype about the 'deadly' this and the 'lethal' that, and applies reason in seeking the answers. Those who think for themselves will find useful guidance here."
John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
"Relax and put away your duct tape. In exposing the phony politics of fear, Dr. Marc Siegel proves that things aren't as bleak as they seem. The only thing to fear is fear itself."
Bill Press, former cohost of CNN's Crossfire
About the Author
MARC SIEGEL, M.D., is a practicing internist, an associate professor at the New York University School of Medicine, and a Fellow in the Master Scholars Society at New York University. He is a columnist for the New York Daily News and Tribune Media Services, a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Family Circle, and the Washington Post. Siegel has appeared regularly on the Today show, The Early Show on CBS, FOX News Channel, ABC News, CNN, and NPR.
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Product details
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Inc; First Edition (January 1, 2005)
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