Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
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1,490 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 27 Jun
Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you're afraid of getting killed by a coconut falling on top of your head, you can tell them, well, that's a very small risk compared to the risks that you experience every day.
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You probably shouldn't waste time and effort and emotion worrying about something when you're not worrying about these much more likely things to have happen.
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Yeah.
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I'm not in control.
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So you're never a passenger in a car?
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Right.
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A little bit.
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All right.
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Non-sequitur.
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So let's go – let's talk about – That's a fallacy.
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But I do think that there – you're right.
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The informal logical fallacies are context-dependent and we just mentioned a lot of different context here.
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Right.
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But I do think it's important to recognize that it can be a logical fallacy if you're using it wrong, right?
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If you're using it in an inappropriate context.
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And what I see a lot of people do is they make a comparison that's completely irrelevant.
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as if it diminishes the thing that you're concerned about, which is legitimate.
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So let me give you a recent example that we encountered a lot.
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If you say half a percent of people who get COVID die, and you say something like, well, this disease kills a higher percentage of people.
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It's like, okay, so what?
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