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This past week at FiveThirtyEight, I\u2019ve been covering the grim calculus of migrant ships, the difficult data on drones, smoking laws, and cancer tests. \u00a0Read on below!<\/p>\n

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Migrants Trying To Cross The Mediterranean Are Leaving One Risk For Another<\/a><\/h3>\n

When countries confront refugees that aren\u2019t in mortal danger, they\u2019ve found ways to avoid allowing migrants to land and file asylum pleas. In 2013, Australia\u00a0<\/span>set up<\/a>\u00a0new patrols to intercept boats of refugees arriving from Indonesia and to tow them to Papua New Guinea so that asylum claims would be processed there, instead of in Australia. The Prime Minister at the time, Kevin Rudd, declared that people who approach Australia by sea without visas would be barred from ever settling in the country, even if they are genuine refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026Refugees are forced not only to navigate dangerous waters but also to strike a balance between perils. If they arrive in enough danger, they can be rescued; if they make a safer crossing, they face the danger of being turned back when intercepted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cheaper Cancer Tests Carry Risks As Well As Benefits<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Color Genomics\u2019s BRCA screening test is the cheapest and least invasive to come to market, the fruits of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2013ruling<\/a>\u00a0that genes could not be patented.<\/p>\n

The company requires a doctor to formally request every screening ordered by a customer, but those doctors will frequently be acting against the recommendations of the\u00a0American Academy of Family Physicians<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0United States Preventive Services Task Force<\/a>, both of which have specifically recommended that BRCA testing not be done for women without a family history of breast or ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n

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Unlike Many States, Louisiana Allowed New Orleans To Ban Smoking In Bars<\/a><\/h3>\n

New Orleans\u2019s new rules are only possible because Louisiana, when it passed the statewide smoking ban, lifted a restriction that had prevented cities from adding more restrictive laws of their own.<\/p>\n

According to the group Americans for Nonsmokers\u2019 Rights, which maintains a database of statewide and local smoking laws, 13 stateshave<\/a>\u00a0pre-emption laws that prevent local governments from following New Orleans\u2019s example and imposing restrictions greater than the state\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s Not Enough Data On Civilian Drone Casualties<\/a><\/h3>\n

Because the government keeps its statistics under wraps and independent groups must work with data that\u2019s been through an international game of telephone \u2014 news organizations work with local freelancers, who sometimes dispatch yet another layer of proxies to speak to witnesses \u2014 the only fact we can be certain of is that whatever the true tally of civilians killed in drone strikes is, it has now gone up by two. And while it\u2019s likely that somewhere between 156 and 960 civilians have died in U.S.-led drone strikes, the number of personal apologies by the president of the United States to the families of the deceased is considerably lower.<\/span><\/p>\n

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