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I have spent a lot of my working life, attempting to understand and communicate risk and uncertainty. The first question by many patients is, what are my chances?

It is a prime time of the year for sports. The World Series is just about to get underway, and we are just about in the middle of football’s regular season.

When the U.S. government files a patent for some off-the-wall idea, the usual suspect is DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

There are no shortages of controversial science, nutritional research, and nuclear power come readily to mind.

The popular press regularly botches its science reporting.

“… the hot flavors in spices, the mouth-puckering tannins in wines, or the stink of Brussels sprouts. They are the antibacterials, antifungals, and grazing deterrents of the plant world.

Many studies make use of self-reported behavior, nutritional studies asking what you are eating, or surveys asking about how much exercise you do.

The anti-nuclear crowd uses an assortment of scares to turn public opinion against the use of nuclear power, one of them being the risk of an accident when spent nuclear fuel is transported to where it is to be disposed of.

The leaves are turning beautiful colors, the air is crisp, pumpkin spice lattes are back, and college football is entering the conference season. Simply put, the transition from September into October is perhaps the greatest time of the year.

This idea is dumb enough to sound like it came from Elon Musk, but it didn't.