Faulty Risk Assessment and The Epidemic Spread of Self-Terrorization

Every year the Anopheles mosquito is responsible for transmitting a million fatal cases of malaria. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/03/malaria-deaths-research

"Self-Terrorization Is The National Pastime"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/tom-toles-cartoon-self-terrorization-is.html

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/self-terrorization-cornerstone-of.html

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/uncle-sams-advice-for-superpatriots.html

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/self-terrorization-national-pastime.html

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/national-pastime-self-terrorization.html

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/faulty-risk-assessment-and-epidemic.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/04/americas-national-pastime-is-self.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/jenny-mccarthy-americas-poster-girl-for.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-gop-campaign-message-be-afraid.html

Jenny McCarthy: Poster Girl For Self-Terrorization
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/jenny-mccarthy-americas-poster-girl-for.html

"Ebola Represents A Trivial Threat To Americans' Health"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-presents-trivial-threat-to.html

"Shark Attacks Rise Worldwide: Risk Assessment and Aquinas' Criteria For Sin"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/shark-attacks-rise-worldwide-risk.html

"The Death Of Epistemology"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-polls-skewed-death-of-epistemology.html

Dear G,

Your forward - "New Muslim Toy" - is funny! 

Thanks.

Terrorism works... 

                               ... if "the brave" let it.

Infected by faulty risk assessment, conservative Americans have become Bin Laden's most dependable allies.

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"Over a lifetime," the odds of dying in a car crash are about one in 100. (Notably, Americans would be half as likely to die in automobile wrecks if we followed European protocols.) http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/how-scared-should-we-be/

The odds of dying in a terror attack are one in bizillion.

Consider.

I know only one family who "knows someone" who died in a terror attack.

How many do you know? 

One? Two? Three?

Now do "the math" for car wrecks.

Since homo "sapiens" is woefully unable to evaluate risk, we are unusually prone to self-terrorization.

Note well.

Bee stings kill immeasurably more humans than sharks, but who gets "the press?"

Pax on both houses,

Alan

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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:20 AM, gc wrote:

NEW MUSLIM TOY

 

New from Dearborn , Michigan just in time for Christmas. 
The latest toy has hit the shops... a talking Muslim doll.

Nobody knows what the F..... it says, because no one has the guts to pull the cord