Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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Scientists who inflame public anxieties must share responsibility for resulting panic

Michael Fitzpatrick

General practitioner Barton House Health Centre, London N16 9JT

EDITOR,—Recent editorials on the danger of bovine spongiform encephalopathy causing Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans confirm that academic scientists are as much in the grip of the irrationality of the mad cow panic as is the public.1 2 Paul Brown recalls his judgment of last November that the available evidence suggested “a negligible risk to humans,”3 only to confess that “it now appears that I was wrong.”1 However, he adduces no new evidence to justify …