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Omelet > wrote:

> (Steve Pope) wrote:


>> Omelet > wrote:


>> >
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>> >> Peanut allergies are down in the noise. They're there, but you
>> >> will have trouble finding one.


>> >That's 'cause they often die young. Peanut allergy is a very, very
>> >deadly one.


>> Okay, there's a theory.


>> To support this theory, you're have to believe the actual number
>> of peanut allergy fatalities in the U.S. is much greater than the ten
>> or so per year currently reported; that there are underreported
>> peanut victims.


>Indeed...


>How can that be proven or disproven?


To a first order, you believe that cause-of-death statistics are
mostly accurate, unless you have a solid reason to believe otherwise.

Steve