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Motorcyles Are Fun Death Machines
A graphic from the Washington Post about motorcycle deaths is making the rounds again on Twitter, and it will set off a lot of comments by people who can't put it in context, so let's go back to the source paper.
Here is what you need to know:
If you ride 15 miles every day on a motorcycle for a year, you have a 1 in 860 chance of dying.
If you fly 500 miles every day on an airplane for a year, you have a 1 in 85,000 chance of dying.
Here is what you need to know:
If you ride 15 miles every day on a motorcycle for a year, you have a 1 in 860 chance of dying.
If you fly 500 miles every day on an airplane for a year, you have a 1 in 85,000 chance of dying.
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UC Davis Gives Government Bans Credit For Ending The Vaping Fad
During the Obama administration, the credibility of the US Centers for Disease Control went into serious decline. Though it only became evident to most how incompetent career government bureaucrats were when COVID-19 hit - they denied it was a pandemic and said the President was being xenophobic for wanting to ban travel from China(1) - those of us inside the system saw that they were long not equipped to help with much at all. If you need six weeks to tell the public lettuce has E. coli, basically five weeks after people had eaten the lettuce, you are not a public health agency, you are just a government job works program.
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Exploring new pathways to monitor and treat the most aggressive and evasive forms of breast cancer
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Ancient survivor reveals its secret: First-ever egg of a mammal ancestor discovered
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Human changes in land-cover increase global landslide fatalities in mountains considerably
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Terasaki principal investigator Dr. Yangzhi Zhu publishes smart contact lens for real-time IOP monitoring and closed-loop treatm...
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Male gender, marriage, and social support linked to flourishing mental health for older Canadians
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NYU Abu Dhabi researchers develop smart MRI molecules to detect and treat cancer
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Scripps Research scientists uncover new mechanism cancer cells use to survive DNA damage
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Gladstone’s Ryan Corces receives MIND Prize to uncover unknown drivers of Alzheimer’s
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SERI, Duke-NUS spin-off uses AI to turn patient feedback into better vision care
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Young People Have Become Jaded To Emotional Appeals On Screens - And That Is Good
Running a pro-science nonprofit is a poor business model. Especially compared to lawyer groups like Environmental Working Group or rich deniers like Greenpeace.
'Your food is safe' is a terrible call to action but 'evil chemical corporations are killing you' gets the money rolling in - even though the former is true and the latter is a paranoid conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
'Your food is safe' is a terrible call to action but 'evil chemical corporations are killing you' gets the money rolling in - even though the former is true and the latter is a paranoid conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
Categories: Science 2.0