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originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: Oldcarpy2
Official cause of death is not determined by a family member. I thought you were some kind of lawyer.
originally posted by: Madviking
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: Madviking
According to the CDC's data, only 5% of covid deaths had solely Covid as a cause. 95% had an average of four comorbidities. Yes that is 4 with a capital F.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: Madviking
What were her comorbidities? US and Italian data show 95% have multiple serious conditions in addition to covid.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
An anti vaxxer has died after deliberately contracting it, apparently to gain immunity.
Hana Horka, 57, was a famous folk singer.
Her family blame anti vaxxers for her death.
There are lots of sources for this out there, here's just one:
www.news24.com...
Post the data, please? 95% of what?
Then post your data.
I am going to post this data, direct from the CDC.
Were you not aware of this data?
www.cdc.gov...
"Comorbidities and other conditions
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The number of deaths that mention one or more of the conditions indicated is shown for all deaths involving COVID-19 and by age groups. For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death. For data on deaths involving COVID-19 by time-period, jurisdiction, and other health conditions, Socrata icon Click here to download."
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: Oldcarpy2
Well, her family does not seem to be under any doubt.
Are any members of her family medical doctors?
Better yet, are any of her family members virologists?
Are you?
So. We can just ignore them? Well done.
Were you there?
They were.
originally posted by: LordAhriman
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: LordAhriman
Wow, you posted a pay wall.
No I didn't. Might want to run a malware scan.
originally posted by: AcrobaticDreams
a reply to: Oldcarpy2
I read this on the BBC. These stories are obviously out there but they do their best to ignore and dismiss the people who were harmed by the vaccine? Just be balanced. I hate how each side only present one view.
“A fool will believe anything.”—PROVERBS 14:15, TODAY’S ENGLISH VERSION.
THERE is a difference—a big difference—between education and propaganda. Education shows you how to think. Propaganda tells you what to think. [although propagandists often also tell you how to think, conditioning and indoctrinating their way of thinking, their way of using logic, or should I say, twisting logic] Good educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion. Propagandists relentlessly force you to hear their view and discourage discussion. [although, often they pretend otherwise, which can be recognized when they are misrepresenting any argument that might be used against the views they are promoting, addressing straw man arguments or only the weakest arguments against their position, in an effort to make their case seem stronger and to make it appear that they are not discouraging discussion and presenting all sides of an issue] Often their real motives are not apparent. They sift the facts, exploiting the useful ones and concealing the others. They also distort and twist facts, specializing in lies and half-truths. Your emotions, not your logical thinking abilities, are their target.
The propagandist makes sure that his message appears to be the right and moral one and that it gives you a sense of importance and belonging if you follow it. You are one of the smart ones, you are not alone, you are comfortable and secure—so they say.
How can you protect yourself from the types of people that the Bible calls “profitless talkers” and “deceivers of the mind”? (Titus 1:10) Once you are familiar with some of their tricks [discussed on the preceding page for this article], you are in a better position to evaluate any message or information that comes your way. Here are some ways to do this. [so this is not discussing the earlier mentioned "tricks", it assumes you've already read the preceding page, this is about some ways to evaluate any message or information]
Be selective: ...
Use discernment: ...
Put information to the test: ...
Ask questions: ...
Do not just follow the crowd: ...
...
... This communications revolution has led to information overload, as people are inundated by countless messages from every quarter. Many respond to this pressure by absorbing messages more quickly and accepting them without questioning or analyzing them.
The cunning propagandist loves such shortcuts—especially those that short-circuit rational thought. Propaganda encourages this by agitating the emotions, by exploiting insecurities, by capitalizing on the ambiguity of language, and by bending rules of logic. As history bears out, such tactics can prove all too effective.
...
“THE competition is savage. Winners reap monumental rewards; losers face oblivion. It’s an atmosphere in which an illicit shortcut is sometimes irresistible—not least because the Establishment is frequently squeamish about confronting wrongdoing.” So opened the article “Publish or Perish—or Fake It” in U.S.News & World Report. To escape perishing, many scientific researchers are faking it.
The pressure on scientists to publish in scientific journals is overwhelming. The longer the list of published papers to the researcher’s name, the better his chances for employment, promotion, tenure in a university, and government grants to finance his research. The federal government “controls the largest source of research funding, $5.6 [thousand million] a year from the National Institutes of Health.”
Because “the scientific community shows little stomach for confronting its ethical dilemma,” “has been strangely reluctant to probe too deeply for hard data about its ethical conduct,” and “isn’t keen about cleaning house or even looking closely for malfeasance,” congressional committees have held hearings and considered legislation to do the job of policing for them. (New Scientist; U.S.News & World Report) This prospect wrings from scientists much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Yet, one science journal asks and answers the question: “Is the house of science clean and in order? The bit of evidence that reaches the public invites serious doubts.”
Some researchers eliminate data that does not support what they want to prove (called cooking); report more tests or trials than were actually run (called trimming); appropriate for their own use data or ideas of other researchers (called plagiarism); and make up experiments or data they never performed or produced (called forging). A cartoon in a science journal poked fun at this last tactic, one scientist talking to another and saying of a third: ‘He’s published a lot since he took up that creative writing course.’
“What’s the major product of scientific research these days? Answer: Paper,” U.S.News & World Report said. “Hundreds of new journals are being founded each year to handle the flood of research papers cranked out by scientists who know that the road to academic success is a long list of articles to their credit.” Quantity, not quality, is the goal. Forty thousand journals published yearly produce a million articles, and part of this flood “is symptomatic of fundamental ills, including a publish-or-perish ethic among researchers that is stronger now than ever and encourages shoddy, repetitive, useless or even fraudulent work.”
A senior editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Drummond Rennie, commented on the lack of quality: “There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature citation too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print.”
Making Mountains out of Molehills
The publish-or-perish syndrome has made many researchers very resourceful in nursing a modest output of published articles into phenomenal numbers. They write one article, then chop it up into four smaller ones—called salami slicing in the jargon of the profession. In this way, instead of a publication credit for one article, they have four articles added to their publications list. Then they may send the same article to several journals, and each time it is published, it is counted again. More often than not, one article may show several scientists as authors, and each author adds the article to his list of published articles. A two- or three-page article may show 6, 8, 10, 12, or more authors.
On the NOVA program entitled “Do Scientists Cheat?” telecast on October 25, 1988, one scientist commented on this practice: “People are trying to get their names attached to as many publications as they possibly can, so that very commonly now you find huge teams where 16 people all sign their name to a particular publication, which probably wasn’t worth publishing in the first place. But this is part of a kind of rat race, a competitiveness, a vulgar quantitative counting mentality that is absolutely encouraged by the structure of science in the United States today.” Some listed as coauthors may have had very little to do with the article, may not even have read it, yet add the article to their list of publications. Such bloated lists influence the granting of research requests involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of public funds.
Peer Review, a Safeguard Against Fraud?
[whereislogic: this section starts with quoting someone who is clearly promoting the religion of scientism, Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines this as “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation.” When modern science was born in the 17th century, spectacular scientific breakthroughs enveloped science in a halo of infallibility and authority, producing scientism, a religion in itself, a sacred cow. The person in question is Isaac Asimov. But many others argue or think just like he's doing here concerning what is called "peer review". I highly recommend clicking this link and reading the whole section, don't want to use too much from an external source.]
originally posted by: Madviking
According to the CDC's data, only 5% of covid deaths had solely Covid as a cause. 95% had an average of four comorbidities. Yes that is 4 with a capital F.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: Madviking
What were her comorbidities? US and Italian data show 95% have multiple serious conditions in addition to covid.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
An anti vaxxer has died after deliberately contracting it, apparently to gain immunity.
Hana Horka, 57, was a famous folk singer.
Her family blame anti vaxxers for her death.
There are lots of sources for this out there, here's just one:
www.news24.com...
Post the data, please? 95% of what?
originally posted by: NorthOfStuff
Not trying to make you sad Carpy.
It’s just that this spider web of info and disinfo is so interconnected when it comes to the Covid topic.
Have a stout on me.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: Oldcarpy2
My opinion is to wait and let the authorities determine the cause of death and quit making flimsy assumptions.
originally posted by: NorthOfStuff
originally posted by: Madviking
According to the CDC's data, only 5% of covid deaths had solely Covid as a cause. 95% had an average of four comorbidities. Yes that is 4 with a capital F.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
originally posted by: Madviking
What were her comorbidities? US and Italian data show 95% have multiple serious conditions in addition to covid.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
An anti vaxxer has died after deliberately contracting it, apparently to gain immunity.
Hana Horka, 57, was a famous folk singer.
Her family blame anti vaxxers for her death.
There are lots of sources for this out there, here's just one:
www.news24.com...
Post the data, please? 95% of what?
Albertans are catching on and the “experts” had to go into more detail regarding the hospitalization with and from Covid.
This is from yesterday.
“Our analytics team has been working hard with Alberta Health Services to provide a robust summary of the proportion of new hospital admissions that are due to COVID, as compared to admissions because of other causes.
We will provide this information on our website later this week, but for the time being, a summary is being included as a part of my weekday Twitter account updates.
Our most recent data from new admissions since late last week indicates that 51% of new admissions to non-ICU spaces are due to COVID infection and 49% are cases where the infection was not determined to be a cause of admission, or where it was not possible to determine.
For ICU, the percentage of new admissions due to COVID was 74% and 26% were incidental infections or unclear.“
If they had been honest from the beginning it appears that the pandemic numbers would have been much different.
www.alberta.ca...
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: Madviking
True, but a covid "choking death" doesn't pass the smell test no matter what a family member says. Carpy takes their word for gospel - debate over. Then pulls the victim card.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: Madviking
yes