The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again
The News-to-Death Ratio Strikes Again Authored by Carl Henegan and Tom Jefferson via The Brownstone Institute, There is a peculiar arithmetic that governs modern health reporting, one that has very little to do with actual risk. Hans Rosling captured it neatly during the 2009 swine flu episode, when he calculated a “news-to-death ratio” of 8,176-to-1. In other words, for every death attributed to swine flu, there were over eight thousand news stories. Tuberculosis, by contrast, rec...
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