Catastrophe.

The article focuses on most significant catastrophic risks like pandemics, asteroids and what can be done about them. A risk of natural catastrophe that cannot be blamed on technology to even the slightest degree is that of a collision between an asteroid or comet and the earth. Bioterrorism is a gr...

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Publicado en:Skeptic Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 42 - 64
Autor principal: Posner, Richard A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Skeptics Society 2005
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