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Reinier Post
9 September 2009 - 2:33pm
So by comparing overall death statistics between countries we can estimate the numbers of lives we can save on 800 / year, but no indication of the confidence of this number is given. May it just as well be 8000 or 80?
By chlorinating our tap water, we replace this number with the number of lives lost to potent8ial carcenogenic effects of monochloramine, for which no estimates are even mentioned, and which appearmuch harder to estimate. Is this another case of replacing "known unknowns" with "unknown unknowns"? Or is the article just being sloppy here?
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