Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella
speaker
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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It's still half a percentage of people who get COVID die, or whatever the number is.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And therefore... You're more likely to get the flu.
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Who cares?
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It's irrelevant to the question.
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That's not what we're talking about.
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We're talking about this is a real risk and we need to mitigate this risk.
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And that's what Chris, the writer, is talking about.
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He's saying we're engaged in reducing the risk of getting killed by sharks.
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How likely it is to get killed by bees is irrelevant to our attempts at mitigating shark attacks.
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It's whataboutism.
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That's relative privation, absolutely.
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But it's also, it's like you can arbitrarily choose a comparison to magnify or diminish the thing you're talking about.
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So it's completely arbitrary.
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It doesn't mean anything.
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Yeah, it doesn't make something less deadly because there's something more deadly than it.
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Right, right.
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All right.
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Here's number three here.
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Here's number two.
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