• Tedesche
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    12 years ago

    Maybe, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the case, but the point is the study doesn’t actually prove it and it admits that.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      52 years ago

      It’s never going to be provable, that’s why it’s measured as excess deaths.

      • Tedesche
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        -52 years ago

        I understand the study’s basic methodology. It doesn’t change my point. And I don’t know that it’s never going to be provable. Maybe with enough data we could find a very subtle pattern that proves it. The point is, this study doesn’t, nor do any of the others on their own, but they collectively provide evidence that the hypothesis may be true.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          You realise you’ve just described science there. Nothing can ever be conclusively proven, you can only disprove it, or build more evidence for it.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          42 years ago

          You are missing the entire point of looking at excess deaths.

          • Tedesche
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            -32 years ago

            No, I’m not. Ironically, I think you are. But I’m tired of debating this with people. It says it in the linked article. Debate with the authors of the study if you want to.

            • TheDeadGuy
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              22 years ago

              I agree with you, it’s in the article. Not sure why people are injecting a new thesis instead of discussing the one presented and researched