The press is making us mistake a mouse for an
elephant, and an elephant for a mouse. Today, in the U.S., many more
people are dying from overfeeding than underfeeding, many more people
are killed by excessive comfort than discomfort, and for all the evil of
the gun lobby, firearms harm much, much fewer people (<1%) than the
corn syprup, cereal, wheat, and orange juice industries. I cannot
believe that, in the 21st century, "intelligent" people would mistake
the lurid for the statistical.
--Nassim Taleb
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