Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Not What We've Been Led to Believe

We Know Less Than We Think About Hate Crimes [More]
But...but...but experts...

[Via Michael G]

Posted by David Codrea at 3/12/2019 11:11:00 AM

1 comment:

Archer said...

There's so much wrong with that article, I'm not sure where to begin. But here goes....

"We know little about gun violence ... because the federal government has not had a comprehensive program of research in these areas for decades."

Later (emphasis mine):

...Morral and his Rand colleagues, after surveying thousands of studies, found largely inconclusive evidence about the effects of various gun policies....

The most logical conclusion is that those THOUSANDS of studies determined that those "various gun policies" don't significantly affect "gun violence" rates.

But that conclusion wouldn't bring about the research grants.

Later still:
Any other public health problem that caused so much death, injury, and trauma would be a focus of intensive government research.

Like, say, medical errors/mistakes (~250,000 deaths per year), accidental/unintentional injury (~160,000 deaths per year), suicide in general (~44,000 deaths per year), or automobile accidents (~37,000 per year)? Where are the proposed "intensive government research" programs to cover just that first one, medical errors, seeing as it causes American deaths at a rate ~22 times the "gun homicide" rate (not counting suicides)?

Besides which, as Bear pointed out, the ICD-10 injury/death codes are available for exactly this kind of research, but the CDC (and other biased "research" organizations) instead prefer to use cherry-picked or fabricated numbers, all the while complaining that there's no data to study.

3/12/2019 7:56 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)