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Lord Krebs
Author(s) -
Champkin Julian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00694.x
Subject(s) - badger , control (management) , disease control , medicine , environmental health , biology , ecology , management , economics
How do you explain to the public the risk that the meat they have been eating for years may pass on a lethal disease? Or to parents that the milk they are giving their children may contain dioxins? Or to politicians that killing badgers may not be an efficient way to control TB? Lord Krebs has succeeded in two out of these three enterprises in statistical communication. Julian Champkin spoke to him at the height of a trial badger cull.