What's amazing from this article, and from others like it, is that even being reasonably knowledgeable is not a guarantee of anything. I mean, better be knowledgeable, of course -- but even people who should know better die and get caught in freak accidents. Or simply, one day they let their guard down. After plenty of near death experiences, the author of this article was still doing some dumb shit, she hadn't learned the lesson by her own admission.

This isn't an argument against research; of course you should know the dangers and treat the environment carefully. But even this isn't a guarantee of survival.