Slashdot Mirror


Conspiracies And Probability

guttentag writes "Sunday's New York Times Magazine is running a feature that looks at the rumored conspiracy that allegedly killed nearly a dozen bioterror and germ warfare researchers during a four month period following the U.S. anthrax scare. "What are the odds," people ask, despite the fact that a "one-in-a-million miracle" will statistically occur 280 times a day in the U.S. These strange things happen all the time, but we hype them because they provide the spice in literature and the comfort of comprehension."

1 of 491 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Did they catch the Anhtrax killer ? by theguru · · Score: 5, Informative

    >and did you see any wreckage of a plane at the >pentagon in any of the photos taken ? cockpit ? >wing ? fuselage ?

    Yep, I have. Pictures of plane wreckage at the pentagon