You Don't Know How To Protect Yourself - Yet

"When we see a hole-in-one video on YouTube we are sensible enough to know that this has been selected out of millions of shots that missed. We need to think the same way every time we hear of someone claiming that some new treatment has cured them."

-- David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk for Cambridge University, insisting "too few people had a good understanding of the role chance played in the world, leaving them unprepared to do such things as be critical of so-called 'miracle cures,' in the Telegraph.Uk.

The article continues, "He described the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine scare, in which one discredited study claimed to find a link with autism, and dubious claims made about alternative medicines like homeopathy as good examples of people failing to use their statistical sense."

Amen, Brother.