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Why do some risks terrify us while others barely register?Why does a rare plane crash dominate headlines, while chronic air pollution remains background noise?

In this episode of Medlock Holmes: Global Public Health, Holmes leaves the laboratory of quantitative toxicology and enters the theatre of human judgement.

Risk is not experienced purely as probabi…