Why did the author do what they did? Well honestly most journalists are IDIOTS... they aren’t engineers, they are piss poor at math, and they are LAZY.... They parrot what they are told, so if they are told 5 in 10,000 that’s what theyi’ll write.. they won’t reduce it.
You seem to be confusing scale and scope with our comments about risk.
You want to use Engineering type risk, then a more accurate comparison would be, what’s the odds of you getting a lemon vehicle?
Would you consider that to be a high risk? Obviously if the risk is too high companies would go out of business... yet your odds of getting a lemon right off the assembly line from some of the worlds premier auto makers is HIGHER, and at some points MUCH higher than .05% risk of cancer from a transplant. Don’t believe me? feel free to check it out
https://lemonlawexperts.com/study-lemon-law-claims-data-us/
.05% is an insanely low risk. As I stated by your reasoning no one should have children, for the risk of Downs Syndrome.
No one should ever have any surgery, because your risk of death from complications due to surgery surgery is .07%!
Don’t believe me? Here you go:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6137a6.htm
You seem to have a completely unrealistic belief in what is high or low risk, particularly when it comes to events in your everyday life.
The risk of contracting cancer from a transplant is LOWER than dying from a general surgical complication! PERIOD.
1 in 2,000 is not “extraordinary.” 1 in 2,000 will be quite common across the totality of transplant surgeries worldwide. My objection is to lack of candor and resorting to a sell job, marketing hype.
Regarding the risk of having a Down Syndrome child, that risk is heightened with age, and medical professionals hype that risk in the opposite direction to the point of advising abortion, I know, my own sister experienced that. Again, marketing hype. My niece is was a beautiful, healthy, normal baby and is now 15 years old.
The risk of death from even anaesthesia is greatly under-appreciated, and it it were understood more fully I believe a fair amount of elective surgery would cease to occur.