No idea of risk: Expensive environmental and health panic. Keine Ahnung von Risiko: Teure Umwelt- und Gesundheitspanik.

Most people cannot handle risks and probabilities. For alarmists, this is an advantage, for everything new, it is an obstacle. In reality, of course, the health of Germans and people around the globe as measured by life expectancy is constantly increasing. Based on inadequate risk assessments, billions of Euros are wasted every year on unnecessary and even damaging activities. Dr. rer. pol Walter Krämer is a mathematician and economist form the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, He has worked as a Research Assistant at the Seminar for Statistics at the University of Mannheim; as Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; Professor of Empirical Economic Research at the University of Hanover. He is currently the Spokesman for the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 823: "Nonlinear dynamic models in business and technology and a Full Professor of Economic and Social Statistics at the Department of Statistics at the University of Dortmund. Den vollständigen Artikel auf Deutsch, in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ) am 21. August 2017 erschienen, finden Sie im Archiv der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/meine-finanzen/versichern-und-schuetzen/die-umwelt-und-gesundheitspanik-kommt-teuer-15160132.html). Hier lesen Sie eine kommentierte Kurzfassung des genannten Artikels, dessen Aussagen die Editoren von JOSHA gerne unseren internationalen Lesern zugänglich machen wollen.