Now this is a very interesting article.
Especially when we consider it in light of the fear our government group handlers want us to have about "terrorist."
The medical profession kills more of us then "terrorist" do.
You may have thought cancer or heart disease takes the lives of more Americans than any other illness or event.
But conventional medicine is actually the leading cause of death today!
Over a decade, the scientists predict that iatrogenic deaths will total about 7.8 million, “more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history,” a death rate equivalent to that caused by six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day.
"A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine says medical errors should rank as the third-leading cause of death in the United States -- and highlights how shortcomings in tracking vital statistics may hinder research and keep the problem out of the public eye.
The authors, led by Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Martin Makary, call for changes in death certificates to better tabulate fatal lapses in care.
In an open letter, they urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to immediately add medical errors to its annual list reporting the top causes of death.
Based on an analysis of prior research, the Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors.
On the CDC's official list, that would rank just behind heart disease and cancer, which each took about 600,000 lives in 2014, and in front of respiratory disease, which caused about 150,000 deaths.
Medical mistakes that can lead to death range from surgical complications that go unrecognized to mix-ups with the doses or types of medications patients receive.
The study was published Tuesday in The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal."
I have rarely ever gone to see a doctor....
In a world ruled by reason and evidence, we'd carefully weigh the potential costs – in both human and economic terms – associated with various threats, and allocate our scarce resources to mitigate them accordingly, unless it is the medical profession or doctors.
But risk perception isn't a rational endeavor.
Sometimes moderate risks take shape as vicious monsters in the public's imagination, while far greater threats are dismissed, out of sight and out of mind.
Most of us don't think twice before undertaking the relatively dangerous endeavor of getting into a car and driving across town, but after every serious shark attack, rare as they are, beaches tend to empty.
Much of this skewed perception is driven by the media, which get big ratings and lots of pageviews from shark attacks but don't see much interest in fatal car crashes.
In 2010, 15 Americans were killed in acts of terror.
That's worldwide.
Here at home, 33 Americans – more than twice as many – succumbed to fatal dog bites.
And 19 died in 2010 after being struck by lightning.
American deaths from terror attacks outpaced those from lightning strikes in only one of the 10 years prior to the invasion of Iraq – 2001, the year of the 9/11 attacks.
Statistically, terrorism is a modest threat.
And yet we
Why?
"NSA wiretapping AT&T was reported way back in 2006: www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 - "AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center"
" What matters is Society.
A society's health is not measured by the number of people in it, but the level of freedoms they are afforded, especially in regards to expression and association.
Those freedoms allow societies to grow, adapt and survive in changing circumstances.
They also give us the ability to plot, scheme and change our governments when, or before, they go feral. And, make no mistake, history has proven that - over a long enough timescale - governments of all kinds end in tyranny.
Whether or not that tyranny is absolute depends on the level of control they have over public discourse, expression and -ultimately- political thought."
"A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as Facebook and Google to enable law enforcement officials to intercept online communications as they occur. ... 'The importance to us is pretty clear,' says Andrew Weissmann, the FBI's general counsel.
'We don't have the ability to go to court and say, "We need a court order to effectuate the intercept." Other countries have that.'
Under the draft proposal, a court could levy a series of escalating fines, starting at tens of thousands of dollars, on firms that fail to comply with wiretap orders, according to persons who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
'This proposal is a non-starter that would drive innovators overseas and cost American jobs,' said Greg Nojeim, a senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
'They might as well call it the Cyber Insecurity and Anti-Employment Act.'"
Washington Post and Fox News Find that – Even Right After the Boston Terror Attacks – Americans Are More Leery of Government Tyranny than Terrorists
Multiple Polls: Americans Are More Afraid of the GOVERNMENT than TERRORISTS
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Most have seen 911 Mysteries. In case you have not, here it is.
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