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John Olson's avatar

Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, estimated the number of deaths from medical errors at 250,000 annually in the USA. From 2000 to 2021, not counting the terrorism of 9/11, there were 19 deaths in commercial aviation. Since your doctor is vastly more likely to kill you than your airline pilot and since you have some choice about doctors but merely Hobson's choice about airline pilots, it makes sense to be much more selective about your doctor than your airline pilot.

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Bob Frank's avatar

What's the difference between matter and antimatter?

If you ask a physicist, they'll tell you that a particle and its antiparticle are exactly identical in every way, except for a few specific properties, where they're exactly identical in every way except for being oriented in the opposite direction. And if they ever come together, a violent explosion occurs.

This is the best paradigm I've found for understanding "anti-racism" and "anti-fascism."

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