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KUSI news and this Dr. Victory in particular seem to be COVID conspiracy folks, seemingly engaging in some kind of appeal-to-authority fallacy, e.g. https://ww

• neeksHN 4y ago
  And you're engaging in some kind of ad-hominem fallacy -- refute the claims with facts, don't attack the messengers
  • acdha 4y ago
    It’s not unreasonable to point out that a particular person has a controversial history on the topic: https://quackwatch.org/11ind/a-skeptical-look-at-kelly-victory-m-d/ https://quackwatch.org/11ind/a-skeptical-look-at-kelly-victo... It’s much easier for someone who has literally made a career of it to keep making new claims faster than other people can debunk them. The Gish Gallop is real and the assumption of good faith shouldn’t outlast the signs that this is in fact not a good faith discussion.
    • neeksHN 4y ago
      Noted and appreciated. But the fact still stands that that all-cause mortality was up about 40% at the time this was recorded. (See: https://www.usmortality.com/excess-percent https://www.usmortality.com/excess-percent) Regardless of whether it's from second-order effects created by Covid policies (e.g drug overdoses) or other unrelated causes, it's a substantial figure worth investigating. Hopefully more reputable sources will start investigating such claims -- until then I hope people can be open-minded to the fact that "the worst person you know might have just made a good point"
• sn0w_crash 4y ago
  Oh thanks for saving me the brain compute time I would’ve used to analyze this. Now that I know you don’t like the source, I can just move along with my day.
  • slater 4y ago
    You're welcome! :)