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When that blog makes a claim based on official death data, yes. That’s how science works: - Person A makes claim X - Person A then points to data consistent
by zmgsabst 4y ago
When that blog makes a claim based on official death data, yes.
That’s how science works:
- Person A makes claim X
- Person A then points to data consistent with that claim X and which seems to contradict claim Y
- Person B who supports claim Y needs to explain how that data doesn’t contradict claim Y
In this case:
Claim X — COVID vaccines were not safe
Claim Y — COVID vaccines are safe
- soared 4y agoThat author just put a line on a time series graph and said the event that occurred somewhere near that line is the cause of the change. Thats not a claim based on official data, thats not even a valid attempt at analysis. Let me plot a time series of temperature by day. Now I'll draw a line where we see firework sales increase massively. Then after that point, temperature increases consistently. Science, official data, etc. No lies here. But now lets claim.... shooting off fireworks increases the temperature of the Earth causing the temperature to rise until the fall/winter. Now you need to expend resources disproving me.
- zmgsabst 4y agoYou used that example, but it’s not accurate: If you excluded the reverse, that temperature caused the spike (as they did by showing the COVID curve didn’t account for the excess deaths), then that would be an argument worth refuting.