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From the article: "We've never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time," he said. "I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the la
by aeternum 6y ago
From the article: "We've never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time," he said. "I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks."
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIn one hospital. That alone makes it pseudoscience. A years worth of suicides is likely between 10-40 suicides, which is tragi but doesn't show that the quarentine is causing the problems it says. For example, the rise could be due to medical workers being overtaxed due to the pandemic, or some change in which hospital is receiving patients like this.
- manigandham 6y agoThat's not how science works. Please stop calling it pseudoscience just because you don't agree with the findings.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoWhat two people say they experienced is not science. Even calling is pseudoscience is generous, it's an anecdote.
- manigandham 6y agoScience is based on observations. And I hope you realize the pseudoscience is far worse than anecdote (which is a personal observation). Furthermore, economic depressions lead to suffering and death. This is a fact that's widely known and studied. Ignoring all the coming secondary effects to focus on only acute deaths from a single cause is clearly not scientific either.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoScience is based on observations, an observation isn't science. That article was taking one data point, assuming the same thing was happening everywhere, and decided there was only one possible cause.
- manigandham 6y agoThen it's not pseudoscience either. Why so much resistance to an observation if you accept it is as such?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoTaking one observation and assuming it applies everywhere with one possible cause is pseudoscience. If the article just said "we've seen a lot of suicides, here's how to get help" I would have no problems with it.