From this gee-whiz article on statins:
The cholesterol-busting drugs also reduce the chances of death from all causes by 12 per cent.
All causes? Wow!
And yet, I see two ways of parsing that. Does it mean that, thanks to those daily pills, I'm 12% less likely to die in a car crash, 12% less likely to be killed by a meteorite, and so forth? Or does it mean that there's a 12% chance that I'm immortal (so long as I keep taking them)?
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