Friday, April 08, 2016

Faux News Health

Because nothing says "gun safety" like a bunch of antis haranguing you to turn it into a club! [More]

"Lead author Dr. Katherine Freundlich," eh?  I don't suppose she'd like to fill out a form explaining her qualifications and what she's prepared to do about it should her advice not work out...?

2 comments:

LordSega said...

https://www.google.com/#q=gun+safety+storage+information

2.4 million hits in .54 seconds.
I'm fairly sure there are more than just 87 "relevant" info sites available.

Also, as to the chart:

"The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign together publish a 0-100 score rating each state's strictness relating to firearm laws, 100 being the strictest. Plotted below are the 2013 figures for number of firearm-related deaths, including suicides, in each state versus that state's respective gun law score."

Including suicides?!?
Remove those and there is zero correlation (see FBI's crime statistics).
Plot homicides v.s. the Brady score and you get... nothing.
I actually did this myself several months back using 2014 data, just to see for myself. (I have the graph if you want it)

Nice fail by Reuters in buying the BS without doing their own fact checking.

David Codrea said...

Sure-- send the graph -- dcodrea@hotmail.com thanks.