If you’re going to claim that more athletes have suffered cardiac arrests and died in recent years, you’d better release actual numbers. Some real and valid figures. But that’s not what Tucker Carlson did on his FOX News screen “Tucker Carlson Tonight” when he made such a claim. Instead of real numbers, he talked about a letter. A letter. A letter to the editor of a medical journal to be exact.
But Carlson didn’t even specify what it was a lyric in that show’s episode. The episode came after Buffalo Bills security Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest. Carlson, who is not a professional athlete, nor a professional doctor, nor a professional scientist. , warned that there is a trend for more athletes to suffer cardiac arrest. He said: “Cardiologist Peter McCullough and researcher Panagis Polykretis observed this trend in Europe, European sports leagues. They found that before the Covid and Covid-19 vaccines, there were around 29 cardiac arrests in those European sports leagues per year. Carlson went on to say, “Since the start of the anti-vaccine campaign, there have been over 1500 cardiac arrests overall in those leagues and two-thirds of them have been fatal. “. “
Hmm, does it sound as if McCullough, a cardiologist who wasn’t literally known as an infectious disease expert or public fitness researcher before the pandemic, and Polykretis, a biologist, conducted a genuine clinical study?Maybe even a peer-reviewed study? However, it turns out they didn’t and instead simply wrote a letter to the editor published in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. It doesn’t take much to write a letter to the editor of such a newspaper. , which would possibly exclude some young people under the age of five. It is also useful to have an internet connection. And you literally deserve to have an email address. Otherwise, the bar is not very high.
Let’s take a closer look at this letter, which necessarily comprises only one line that is applicable to what Carlson had said. That line read: “From January 2021 at the time of writing, 1598 athletes suffered cardiac arrest, adding 1101 with a fatal outcome “Where the hell did McCullough and Polykretis get those numbers?Well, in the letter, they were referring to a blog called goodscience. com. Yes, you heard that right: a blog.
As you can imagine, there are countless blogs ranging from Ryan Gosling Disneyland Cats, which “was inspired by Ryan Gosling’s confidence that Disneyland is home to an army of cats,” to Selleck Waterfall Sandwich, which focuses exclusively on Tom Selleck, stunts, and sandwiches. , because why not? Most blogs are not reviewed for content accuracy. Therefore, you depend quite a bit on the reputation of the blog.
So who are the authors of the goodscience. com blog?Drum roll please. Therefore, as far as you know, this site may be run by anti-vaxxers, hostile foreign agents, the Disneyland cat army, or otherwise. dicen. es
A closer look also shows the highly questionable tactics in which the site has put together a list providing accounts 1598 and 1101. The website states that “so-called medical professionals who administer COVID vaccination systems around the world keep repeating that ‘the COVID vaccine is a general vaccine and is safe and effective. ‘” In reaction to his statement, here is an exhaustive and developing list of basically young athletes who had primary medical conditions in 2021/2022 after receiving one or more COVID vaccines.
But a closer look at the list shows entries like: “Cora O’Grady (51), Hill Walker walked from Kilbehenny to Galtymore’s most sensible in Limerick, Ireland. Along the way, he suddenly became ill. Emergency could not resuscitate her. Or “Sharen Manning, 71,” a second-degree black belt judoka and full-fledged diver died in a home in Ontario, Canada. Although the cause of death is not discussed in related articles, they recommend donations to a cancer charity.
All of this begs the question, “What exactly is your definition of an athlete?”Are all other people indexed as existing professional or college athletes?Or are they just listing the other people who died?Mention this small, small explanation of why it might have been so?Namely, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed more than 1. 22 million lives in the United States and more than 6. 72 million lives worldwide.
So let’s get this straight. Carlson made claims based on a letter to the editor who made claims based on an unnamed blog that made claims based on a list that didn’t even stick to what it said was pasted. It doesn’t exactly sound like Sounds of Science. And none of that sounds like “good science” at all.
Political commentator Liz Wheeler expanded on McCullough and Polykretis’ letter, even though Array. . . [ ] uses unverified information. (Photo by Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)
However, others like Liz Wheeler and Simone Gold, MD, shared and expanded on McCullough and Polykretis’ letter. Who are Wheeler and Gold? Well, on July 2, 2021, Tom Kertscher covered Politifact, a Facebook post from Wheeler dealership in which Wheeler, who is a political commentator, said, “A peer-reviewed clinical study showed that the COVID-19 vaccine causes two deaths for each and every one of the 3 lives it saves. “Facebook later flagged Wheeler’s post for misinformation, as Wheeler didn’t actually provide any genuine evidence for such a statement. storming the Capitol on January 6. Yes, that name is Gold, so to speak.
Interestingly, while Good Science’s online page doesn’t actually identify the authors of their papers, it does mention the following: Stew Peters and all the individual researchers. Forbes in November 2022. This film claimed that many other people had died suddenly after receiving the Covid-19 vaccines, but it didn’t actually provide enough evidence to back up its claims.
So, to summarize, Carlson made claims based on a letter to the editor who made claims based on an unnamed blog that made claims based on a list that didn’t even stick to what he says stuck to and credited a guy who was a movie called Died Suddenly Who made Claims without actually backing up the claims. In the words of Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, wow.
Again, that’s not how smart science is intended to be. The bottom line: Don’t stick to everything Carlson said on his screen to the letter. You will realize that you did not provide genuine and verifiable figures that fit all your claims.
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