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/ …
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Publish a paper with better validity and reliability then
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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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Which article are you referring to?
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So, two points. 1. Of course I have read them. Neither offers a more valid or reliable estimate 2. The existence of an undesirable outcome doesn't at all imply that the studies are invalid or unreliable. (See "Appeal to Consequences")
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No, the studies' METHODOLOGY virtually guarantees that their conclusions are invalid and/or unreliable, as was explained in the posts.
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But insufficient to be retracted. Once more, let me say this clearly and unambiguously - The ONLY way we rid ourselves of this pall, is to provide a superseding estimate with better validity and reliability. No amount of sideline kvetching will change that fact . However /2
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Ah, so you admit the methodology sucked?
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Sure. But not sufficiently to be retracted, and far more reliable than the count, which gives a median of 2,540 deaths per year
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