Since 1921, 210 people have died in an effort to summit Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak (29,028′/8848m above sea level). The mortality rate above base camp (17,600′/5360m) is 1.3%, startlingly high even for a peak reaching far into the clouds.
If you reckon that the leading causes of death are avalanches, falling ice, and pulmonary […]

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The other day, I had a bit of fun with an “old friend,” namely J. B. Handley, founder of the antivaccine organization Generation Rescue and now third banana on the antivaccine front to Jenny McCarthy and her boy-toy Jim Carrey. Displeased at my little jabs, he showed up in the comments spewing his usual antivaccine […]

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