David Ropeik

David Ropeik

Retired Harvard Instructor, Author

A man in a pink shirt and a pink and white tie.

David Ropeik is an award-winning broadcast journalist, a Harvard instructor, and an international consultant in risk communication and risk perception. He’s also the author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts.

3 min
Which team you support tells others about your background and where your history lies. And the superstitions we obey in support of our team are a classic example of tribal loyalty.
6 min
That we are not instinctively built that way must be recognized if we’re going to get beyond the risks of not being built that way.