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It's astonishing how bad people's risk assessments are.

It really is amazing, especially from a group that likes to think of themselves as scientific. Full of bias and cherry picking data.

Perhaps I’m getting old and cynical, but… no, wait, I was always cynical.

I remember thinking much the same two decades ago when it was risk of death from terrorists vs bees.

have you worked with medical biologists? Bias and cherry picking there, too.