Hardly a day goes by without reading in the media: ‘Y causes X deaths per year’, where Y can be air pollution, drinking or even noise. Science journalist Arnout Jaspers will show what is fundamentally wrong with this way of quantifying diffuse health effects on a population. There are better alternatives but even major organisations like the WHO ignore this and keep reporting meaningless death counts.

Speaker
Arnout Jaspers
(independent science journalist)

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