RE: Request for suggestion

["Karam, Andrew" <Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu>]

The riskiest thing that happens to anyone is being born because the chance
of death is 100%.  After that, it's just a question of where, when, and how.
This also means that ANY human activity eventually will have a 100%
correlation with death at some point, even though there may be no causative
agent.  

I would suggest that we should be trying to protect first against those
things that cause large numbers of deaths, early deaths, or both.  It seems
likely to me that, at least in the more industrialized nations, we have made
good progress in attacking these agents, leading to an increase in the
numbers of deaths at later ages from heart disease and cancer - the things
that will eventually catch up with anyone who lives long enough.  

Andy

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begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
(A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle)
-----Original Message-----
From: dkosloff1 [mailto:dkosloff1@email.msn.com]

When I was an anti-nuke, one of the arguments I used was that if a nuclear
power plant caused even one death that was too much.  That is a brain dead
concept.  However, no one ever challenged me on that.  I had to challegne
myself by reading Dr. Cohen's articles and moving to West Virginia to see
what coal usage is really like.  Every human activity causes deaths.
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