Hernias > Terrorism
Ryan Singel of Wired News writes:
Comparing official mortality data with the number of Americans who have been killed inside the United States by terrorism since the 1995 bombing of the … Federal Building in Oklahoma reveals that scores of threats are far more likely to kill an American than any terrorist — at least, statistically speaking.
In fact, your appendix is more likely to kill you than al-Qaida is.
I wouldn’t spend so much time making light of the war on terror, except I think we could do with a little less fear. Singel includes a beautiful chart (color coded!) ranking the threats we face, statistically. You’re more likely to die from a hernia than you are at the hands of a terrorist. Link.
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