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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 22:17:45 -0400
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On 5/8/2025 9:21 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> 
> Everything is deadly to one degree or another.
>  From this morning's news:
> 
> https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/health/common-appliance-raises-kids- 
> cancer-risk-nearly-twice-as-much-as-adults/

I dislike articles that express horrors in terms of ratios ("risk nearly 
twice as much") without giving numbers on the actual level of risk.

If there's a 0.00001 chance for adults and a 0.00002 chance for kids, is 
it really serious? Changes from negligible to negligible are meaningless.


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- Frank Krygowski