When Dr. David L. Goldstein of the California Institute of Technology began his book States of Matter, he desired that readers be fully aware of the risks they were undertaking. Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest met unpleasant ends. It is indeed "wise to approach the subject cautiously."
Note that Dr, Goldstein is, at 80, still alive. Statistical mechanics has not killed him yet.
-via Ace of Spades HQ