Simon and Hugh have appeared on numerous TV and radio shows promoting the book. Printed reviews and features/articles include the following:
US hard back:
Crunch the numbers and find many of our fears are unfounded - Kansas City Star, 5 June 2009
The Slippery Slope From Fear to Panic - New York Times, 18 May 2009
Don't worry: Panicology is the antidote for a panic-striken world - USA Today, 18 May 2009
What is there to worry about in the 21st century? - LA Times, 13 May 2009
Alarm Crock - NY Post, 7 May 2009
UK paper back:
Mutant fears over 'mild flu' - Sunday Times, 3 May 2009
Pick of the paperbacks - The Daily Telegraph, March 2009
Whats There to be Afraid of? - The Irish Times, March 2009
UK hard back edition:
Don't believe everything you read - the best from a sceptical year in the inky trade - The Daily Telegraph, November 2008
My A to Z of scare stories, from Anthrax to Zion - The Spectator, July 2008
Myth-busting book has the facts behind fads - Otago Times, July 2008
Niente Paura - Marie Claire Italia, July 2008
Panic now! Or later? - Significance, RSS magazine, June 2008
Name your panic - The Age, 17 May 2009
From alien abductions to rising sea levels - Daily Mail serialisation, 8 May 2008
Be afraid - Sunday Star Times (NZ), 4 May 2008
Seuls les optimistes survivent - Le Figaro, 21 April 2008
Pourquoi il est peut-être bon d'avoir peur? - Le Matin, 20 April 2008
Optimists always have the last laugh - Financial Times, 9 April
Scenes of mild panic - New Statesman, 3 April
Living in a terrified world - The Daily Telegraph, 28 March
Optimistic to say panic over - Evening Standard, 26 March
Don't fear the reaper - Metro, 25 March
The fear factor - The Guardian, 22 March
Calming words - Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March
Reasons to be fearful - The Sunday Telegraph, 16 March
Manic panic! - The Times of India, 16 March
What's the panic? - The Independent, 14 March
Is it worth the worry? - The Spectator, 13 March
No good at risk - Irrational fear - The Economist, 13 March
Don't hit the panic button - The Observer, 9 March
We love to fret - South China Morning Post, 9 March
There's no need to panic - despite what the media might tell you - Irish Times, 8 March
Panic over - Financial Times, 1 March
Don't crack up over daily life - London Lite, 26 February 2008
Who's afraid? - New Statesman, 25 February 2008
Terrorvision, the power of fear - Harper's Bazaar feature, March 2008
Our addiction to fear - Scotland on Sunday feature/review, 17 February 2008
Lay off the panic button, it's only a meteor - Sunday Times serialisation, 17 February 2008
Who are these guys? - London Review of Books, 13 December 2007
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The authors "are gloriously deft in their rebuttal of some of the more egregious cases of media-fuelled herd idiocy", The Observer
"There is a marked lack of hype and hogwash ..... and (the authors) analyse, with scrupulous attention to detail, which fears are grounded, and which are in fact a load of cobblers", Harper's Bazaar
"The book is upbeat and reassuring in tone", Scotland on Sunday
The book "is both useful and funny. Sometimes indignant, sometimes downright scornful, and repeatedly dismissive of silly press headlines about this or that threat to humanity", The Spectator
"Panicology is a useful book to consult before going to a dinner party as it will offer you all sorts of conversational titbits to dispense", The Sunday Telegraph
"A reality check on the endless catalogue of disasters that are supposed to await us", New Statesman
"Au contraire, say the incrementally annoying Briscoe and Aldersey-Williams", London Review of Books