Bullshit. Only innumeracy allows those ridiculous numbers to persist.
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Replying to @mloxton
Hey, it's not my issue if you find estimates of deaths due to preventable medical error as high as 60% of all inpatient deaths or almost 20% of all deaths to be plausible.
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Replying to @gorskon
Hey, it's not my issue if you throw swearwords around in lieu of rational argument, or accuse people of innumeracy instead of offering actual research. As i said, nevermind
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Replying to @mloxton
Hey, it's not my issue if "bullshit" is the single best word to describe estimates of 250-440K deaths due to medical error per year.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s/ …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @gorskon
Publish a paper with better validity and reliability then
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Replying to @mloxton
Do you really believe that 60% of all inpatient deaths are due to medical error? Yes or no?
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Some numbers are so utterly ridiculous that one can reject them on plausibility alone. If 60% of inpatient deaths really are due to medical error, then Gary Null is right and we should just hang it up and let the quacks take over. Right,
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
Nonsense. In fact, nonsense on rickety stilts
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What, your nonsense or Null’s nonsense. They are the same.
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Indeed they are, and Null's lately been trying to claim that the number of deaths due to medical error is almost a million now. He couldn't quite get it there, but I'm sure he'll keep trying.
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