Patrick Dempsey

Yeah, so interesting.

The University of Oxford has a new professorship, new in the last decade or so, a professorship of the public understanding of risk.

That's the name of a professorship.

And when you look at how much how tolerant we have been of the health and life disasters that mining coal has brought upon civilization in the last 150 years, you know, tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of deaths in the process of digging for coal, mining coal, the lung deaths, the breathing deaths that have come about from it.

We somehow accept that.

And you get intermittent nuclear accidents with a death toll far less than that.

And then people react and want to ban all nuclear.

The point is, if we understood risk more rationally, we'd be making very different decisions in our lives.

We sure do.

She could not stop eating the sugar and the grains.

Then our friend Betty helped her lose the weight she gained.