name of prolonging lives there s a good chance we re shortening lives by making more people poor. oh that annoyed the people on the left. how could abc let stossel say that. at least it was ridiculous and abstract. no one would watch. but then the ratings came in and they were good. lots of scientists wrote in and said finally a network is being sensible about risk. abc agreed to give me more primetime specials and that changed my life. it provided a little bit of intellectual diversity at abc. a little. that s all they would tolerate and that lack of tolerance is why i moved to this channel. but that s another story. this show s bottom line when it comes to life and death, we should worry about things like driving and driving drunk, eating too much, drinking too much, abusing drugs, living recklessly. but then chill out in america. thanks to free enterprise, life is pretty good. and every year we live longer.