Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Frank Krygowski Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Caught in rain Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 22:17:45 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 04:18:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a9a8c923f72761d8e21f84d96fd3cce6"; logging-data="2605781"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/taRKmYqEWLYxsOdw8YfGd/QEgaKk28Qc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:D5zhXp3iBuQKlx05J+Y6nkqkY2k= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1877 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. -- - Frank Krygowski