In June this year, Bill Gates tweeted: ‘I’m always amazed by the disconnect between what we see in the news and the reality of the world around us. … we must fight the fear instinct that distorts our perspective.’ Included in the tweet was a chart of distribution of actual causes Americans die of, and for comparison, the same topics in Google searches and in media coverage. Predictably, heart disease, cancer and accidents dominate actual causes. Yet, Google searches were dominated by cancer, acc ..
