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To: mak5

And besides, 100x of a very, very, very tiny thing is still a very, very, very tiny thing.

Let’s say I know with absolute certainty that I will die if I ingest...

1.000000000000000

units of a certain toxin.

Let’s say that we have some evidence that in a population of a million persons, that a few hundred will get sick and a small handful will die if all million ingest...

0.000000000000001

units of this toxin.

How well can we predict the illness and death rates if the population of one million is exposed to AN ALARMING 1000 TIMES the rate of toxin? Or

0.000000000001000

units of this toxin.


24 posted on 04/05/2011 7:27:11 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: mbarker12474

Excellent point. You’ll never get a job as “journalist” if you keep up the sensible talk, you know.


38 posted on 04/05/2011 7:59:58 AM PDT by DBrow
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