Useless, outrageous, and ludicrous are not words typically seen in ME from my experience. Like I said, must be the moon.
The comment in your first post in this thread, something like "you can't get away with this anymore", seems to indicate resentment to her words on a personal level, and therefore it is hard to equate them to dialogue used in a "reasonable debate". I may be wrong, but my impression is that Molly was being attacked and that is what I am responding to. The footnote in my previous post is not mine, but was part of the report, which is why it was included in the quotation marks. Although you are right that this statistic does not carry a lot of weight because it is not compared to the total number of people who die per year, I would hazard a guess that the number of deaths attributed to medical hiccups exceeds the ones that are attributed to people dying because prayer sessions didn't work. It would be interesting to know this. Even so, this is not the subject of Molly's post and, from my perspective, some are having a hard time understanding the simple message that she is attempting to deliver, that there is power in positive thinking. I think her words that you "have to believe in it to make it happen" or whatever, threw the nay sayers off the scent. On Aug 5, 10:40 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > Deripsni, > > Regarding your statistics -- they're useless. > > Displaying a series with no reference to population is pointless. Making a > correlation, in this case, with without a measure of frequency, is > impossible. To then make an extrapolation from that series is pure fallacy. > What would be interesting is to compare the annual death-rate across a > number of areas (infection, cardiac, respiratory, autoimmune) by decade to > see if the frequencies are getting better or wose. Maybe some Wolfram|Alpha > analysis can help you? :) > > Aside from all this, did you read what you copy/pasted? > > "... highlighting these medical malpractice LAWSUIT statistics" > > Emphasis added. > > If your footnote is correct, then the only thing we do know is that the > number of lawsuits is increasing. That says more about American legal > culture than the effectiveness of medical treatment, doesn't it? > > Ian > > 2009/8/5 deripsni <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Although I am not suggesting traditional medicine should not be used, > > it is not always safe (Michael Jackson ring a bell?). The following is > > an overveiw of deaths caused per year by malpractice in the USA alone. > > In fact, doesn't this bring up the issue of whether one wants to put > > their "faith" in the medical profession as it is suggested some are > > doing with "quackery and juju"? > > > "The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) produced an > > article highlighting these medical malpractice lawsuit statistics, > > with regard to patient deaths: > > > >106,000 patients die each year from the negative effects of medication > > > >80,000 patients die each year due to complications from infections > > incurred in hospitals > > > >20,000 deaths per year occur from other hospital errors > > > >12,000 people die every year as a result of unnecessary surgery > > > >7,000 medical malpractice deaths per year are attributed to medication > > errors in hospitals > > > This totals up to 225,000 deaths each year, due to medical negligence > > of some nature. And that number is ever growing."- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
