[pepperberg]

The author's argument is based on the assumption that taking aspirin results "in around one death per 10,000 people".

The cited study [1] does not say that. Those results are specifically for "a fifty-year-old male" (see p. 638), not the general population.

Additionally, the results are from an "aspirin therapy simulation", not real world data [2]. How the researchers ended up with their model parameters, is unknown.

Did the author even read the studies?

[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.6...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15590881/