Getting caught in a web of fear

Which should you fear most, in your tropical paradise, sharks or coconuts?

Getting caught in a web of fear

In 2002 George Burgess, director of the Florida Museum of Natural History, claimed that falling coconuts kill 150 people each year, whereas fewer than 10 people die from shark attacks.

In a classic instance of fake news, the coconut statistic came from a paper in the Journal of Trauma.

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