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0 pointsbbitmaster7y ago0 comments

Snopes is very quick to claim things as "False" if it goes against their left leaning lens of the world.

As an example arguments used by pro-gun advocates are marked as false. Here's a specific example:

They falsify a claim that doctors kill more people than guns https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/doctors-kill-more-people-t...

Yet this article linked on hacker news article states that medical error is the third biggest cause of death in the USA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627213

I used to have many more examples, but the reality is that the facts that they "objectively" check aren't necessarily unbiased.

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gowld7y ago

IIRC, that "250K people killed by medical error" includes every time a medical caregiver failed to prevent an already sick or injured individual from dying and didn't follow ideal procedures in retrospect. One of the examples was "the doctor didn't tell a patient with heart disease that jogging would be dangerous, and then the guy had a heart attack while jogging".

That's like saying that "hospitals cause most cancer deaths" because people who have cancer are in the care of professionals before they expire.

People who die from guns aren't being euthanized from already impending death.

fareesh7y ago

IIRC the gun death statistic also includes criminals who are shot by police in shootouts and other situations where use of lethal force is deemed necessary. I don't think it is reasonable to imply that these people would be alive were it not for gun regulations.

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