I am writing about an item in "Science News in Numbers" (page 7 of the March Biomedical Scientist).
The final item on the page reports an 8% higher chance of death with regular fried food consumption and a 12% increase in the probability of death in those who regularly ate fried chicken. I find this amazing in two ways. I have been a medical laboratory scientist and member of the Institute for well over 50 years and have always believed that the probability of death was 1 (ie 100%). Everybody would die with no possibility of death being preventable. In order to find something that increases the probability of death indicates that somehow somewhere someone has found a way to eliminate death and reduce the probability of death to less than 100%. I find this amazing. I still regularly read The Biomedical Scientist and yet managed to miss any report on the world shattering news of something bringing about immortality.
The second amazing thing is that they have managed to identify, prove and confirm the immortality. I would have expected that it would literally take forever to verify true immortality.
Apart from missing the immortality claim, I still enjoy reading The Biomedical Scientist (despite having retired in 2005).
So congratulations and keep up the good work.
Best wishes
John
DJ Cook FIBMS
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