That’s how you get absurdly large funding for law enforcement.
Disastrous-Year571 on
And much of the cancer reporting is about “breakthrough” results in mice that rarely translate into useful human therapies.
pydry on
It’d be more interesting if they excluded deaths from the left hand side which were basically old age.
Potential_Play8690 on
Why would or should the news reflect the distribution of causes of death? News is news because it’s newsworthy. A guy dying from old age is not newsworthy. A guy getting hit in the head by a meteorite in the middle of the street IS, even though that is the at the very bottom of the list of causes of death. If anything you would expect and want the news to invert the distribution. We want to know about things unknown and we don’t want to be informed about stuff we can all see every day and know to be trivially true.
Bob_Spud on
The importance of your death will be determined by how money can be made from the headlines.
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That’s how you get absurdly large funding for law enforcement.
And much of the cancer reporting is about “breakthrough” results in mice that rarely translate into useful human therapies.
It’d be more interesting if they excluded deaths from the left hand side which were basically old age.
Why would or should the news reflect the distribution of causes of death? News is news because it’s newsworthy. A guy dying from old age is not newsworthy. A guy getting hit in the head by a meteorite in the middle of the street IS, even though that is the at the very bottom of the list of causes of death. If anything you would expect and want the news to invert the distribution. We want to know about things unknown and we don’t want to be informed about stuff we can all see every day and know to be trivially true.
The importance of your death will be determined by how money can be made from the headlines.