This is really not the time to be the smug counterfactual guy. Medical errors don’t evolve into ethnic cleansing. The flu didn’t lynch black people to keep them from voting. You’re ridiculously blithe to the implications of ideology-driven violence.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1158074774297468928 …
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Replying to @jelani9 @beyerstein
NDT'S Tweet was so tone deaf that it could've come from Richard Dawkins.
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AND he chose to lead with a thoroughly inaccurate statistic about "medical errors". SMH
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Replying to @VolunHeel @movinmeat and
I've heard there's ridiculous inflation of medical error deaths, cf NDT, where does the inflation come from?
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Replying to @beyerstein @movinmeat and
Check out
@gorskon 's blog post from February https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/ …1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @VolunHeel @beyerstein and
yeah - that's a great resource. This all started with the wretched IoM "To Err is Human" report in 99 and it is just one of those zombie falsehoods that never go away.
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And the number just keeps growing to the point of utter innumeracy. 250K/yr. dead sure to medical error would equal 36%of all in hospital deaths. 450K would be 57%. You get thr idea.
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