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Conspiracies And Probability

Posted by Hemos on from the roll-the-dice-enough-times dept.

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."

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  1. Id love to ead all about it... by Scrab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but do I really have to register myself with the NY Times?

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  2. Re:On my way home today.... by chill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NewTek is releasing a LightWave render engine for Linux. It is official, now.

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