The Salience Fallacy
Professor Michael Dorf of Columbia University regularly rights for Findlaw.com. He puts out some very good stuff. Linked below is an essay from late September 2005 discussing the "Salience Fallacy". The "Salience Fallacy" is the tendency to make policy mistakes by overweighing risks that come to mind due to recent events. The almost-inevitable result of the salience fallacy is poor public policy. In my opinion the Bush administration's entire foreign policy focus on terrorism after 9/11 is the textbook example of the salience fallacy.
FindLaw's Writ - Dorf: Did Houston Officials Learn Too Much from Katrina? The Salience Fallacy and What to do About it
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