{"id":1536,"date":"2005-05-12T20:21:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2005-05-12T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:21:34","slug":"pigs-kill-more-people-than-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Pigs kill more people than sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/should_terroris.html\">from<\/a> Bruce Schneier:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>One of the things I routinely tell people is that if it&#8217;s in the news, don&#8217;t worry about it. By definition, &#8216;news&#8217; means that it hardly ever happens. If a risk is in the news, then it&#8217;s probably not worth worrying about. When something is no longer reported &#8212; automobile deaths, domestic violence &#8212; when it&#8217;s so common that it&#8217;s not news, then you should start worrying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This comes just after a quote from his book <em>Beyond Fear<\/em> &#8220;More people are killed by pigs every year than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>I really should try to review that. (<a href=\"http:\/\/rc3.org\/cgi-bin\/less.pl?arg=6964\">via<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great quote from Bruce Schneier: One of the things I routinely tell people is that if it&#8217;s in the news, don&#8217;t worry about it. By definition, &#8216;news&#8217; means that it hardly ever happens. If a risk is in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}