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Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

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Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

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Post by SubiculumCode »

xoa wrote: post #14

This reminds me of the sort of light poking of common "correlation is not the same as causation" and "beware of confounding factors" statistical failures behind the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster "clearly reduction in pirates has caused global warming!" [0]. But it's a major in modern public discourse, and one for once that I'm quite willing to lay heavily at the feet of the public education system. Easily on…

I also encountered recently a chart indicating that all causes mortality is higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. It was clear to me, but not to the casual theater, that the median vaccinated individual is much older than the unvaccinated individual, and older adults tend to die more frequently than younger adults.

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Post by sumosudo »

All the learned studying the numbers, trying to figure out what number constitutes a genocide, while doing nothing about the genocide that is happening. This poison is just that. Poison. The immense numbers of injury and death being caused by the jab, and not by a fucking flu, is sad to watch. You don't need to see numbers, or debate on correlation of ticker tallies, when one is seeing it. Good luck to those who think this is not happening, you will be brutally awaken very soon, because its worse than you think.

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Post by h2odragon »

geofft wrote: post #118
OJFord wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the motivation for that? Infamy?

Since it's Sunday morning and my religious tradition is on my mind, I hope you won't mind me posting a theory based in that tradition. The response to the pandemic has reminded me of nothing so much as the demons in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters . Their goal is not simply for people to die - if they die innocent, they haven't gained anything. Their goal is for people to die while being culpable of great evil. A…

PDF copy of The Screwtape Letters for those who need it: http://www.preachershelp.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lewi...

Re: Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?

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Post by k2enemy »

jkonline wrote: post #170

> I don't know how to explain this other than movie-caused mortality. The above sentence alone gets my Skepticism antennae whirling, let alone the majority of the (relatively unassociated) facts. What the heck is movie-caused mortality? An exact search[0^] returns this same HN post, no help there. An inexact search[1^] returns results mainly about deaths that occurred during the filming of a movie or TV show. These d…

Might want to re-read the article. I think this one flew way over your head. Unless your comment is satire, in which case your comment flew over my head.

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Post by dwighttk »

johnsillings wrote: post #119
mihaic wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, with the prelevance of polydactyly (about 1 in 1000 people have 6 or more fingers), and less accidents happening, most people might have a bellow average number of fingers in the future.

There is no way in hell the incidence of polydactyly is that high Edit: jesus christ you were right

Conclusion: we are not in hell ?

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Post by oxfeed65261 »

lordnacho wrote: post #10
makeitdouble wrote: post #6

Another Spurious Correlations [0]. The message will always bear repeating. [0] https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

No, most of those are "actually spurious" in the sense of the two time series having nothing to do with each other. A lot of them are pretty short series as well, so it's easy for them to be correlated. What we are looking at is Simpson's Paradox, where the true causal relationship is obscured by information that isn't obvious from the plot. Now before you correlation != causation, there is actually a causation here…

For more on Simpson’s Paradox, see https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/my_favorite_paradox/, which I happened to reread this week, and which essentially serves as a spoiler for this article.

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Post by adrr »

CheckBlanket wrote: post #81

Yes, smugly mocking people's very valid concerns will surely win them over. Don't study the figures, just do as we say!

These same people are willing to take monoclonal antibodies which are human antibodies harvested from vaccinated genetically modified rodents. It’s the same spike protein antibody just produced in rodents instead of their bodies.
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