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Muscle weakness is a standardized medical diagnosis. When you see the term being used in a medical paper, it always means the same thing. C.f.: https://www.aafp
by Alex3917 5y ago
Muscle weakness is a standardized medical diagnosis. When you see the term being used in a medical paper, it always means the same thing. C.f.: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0401/p1327.html https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0401/p1327.html
- lp0_on_fire 5y agoThis is basically the same argument that gets trotted out whenever someone points out Telsa's deceptive advertising wrt "autopilot". "Real pilots know that autopilot means you still have to pay attention - nevermind that 99.9% of society thinks that idiom means they can sleep behind the wheel while it's turned on"
- josephcsible 5y agoThis is worse than that. With that, the argument sticks with that one definition throughout. Here, one meaning of "muscle weakness" is being used to make it sound scary, and another meaning is used to say COVID causes it. It's the equivocation fallacy.
- Alex3917 5y agoSo you're arguing that the New England Journal of Medicine article is using the word "weakness" in a colloquial sense, rather than in the medical sense, in the same sentence that the words "dyspnea" and "myalgia" appear?: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072