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Dan Abel > wrote:
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>The truth is, there are millions of people with peanut allergies. Only
>ten of them die per year.
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>Therefore, there are a lot of people with minor peanut allergies. I
>didn't know that.


Bad assumption. Holding ones head under water for 20 minutes is
nearly always fatal for the entire population. That we aren't all
dead from it does not mean it isn't deadly for us.

There *might* be tons of folks with minor peanut allergies-- I'm just
saying you can't draw that conclusion from the number of deaths.

Jim