If you claim that more athletes have suffered cardiac arrests and died in the last two years, you’d better provide real numbers. True and valid verifiable 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 that sound like McCullough, a cardiologist who wasn’t known literally 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? But it turns out this is not the case and instead they only 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. being able to write, 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, waterfalls, 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 goodscience blog. com?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 counts of 1,598 and 1,101. The webpage claims that “so-called medical professionals running COVID vaccination systems around the world help repeat that”. the COVID vaccine is a general vaccine and it is effective. In reaction to his statement, here is a non-exhaustive and constantly developing list of the most common young athletes who had primary medical problems in 2021/2022 after receiving one or more COVID vaccines. But taking a closer look at the list, you’ll find entries like: “Cora O’Grady (51), Hill Walker walked from Kilbehenny to the more sensible of Galtymore in Limerick, Ireland. On the way, he suddenly fell ill. Emergency services were unable to resuscitate her. O “Sharen Manning (71), a moment-grade black belt judoka and full diver, died at his home in Ontario, Canada. Although the cause of death is not discussed in the related articles, they recommend donations to a cancer charity. All of this begs the question, what precisely is his definition of an athlete? Or are they just other people’s dead directories? If you’re looking to recommend that more people have died since the end of 2020 than in previous years, there’s little explanation for why that might be the case: the Covid-19 pandemic.
So let’s get this straight. Carlson makes claims in a letter to the editor who made claims on an unnamed blog that made claims on a list that doesn’t even track what it claims to follow. It doesn’t exactly sound like Sounds of Science. ” Good science” not 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 Gold and Wheeler? Well, on July 2, 2021, Tom Kertscher covered for Politifact a Facebook post from Wheeler dealership in which he said, “A peer-reviewed clinical study has shown that COVID-19 vaccine causes two deaths for every one and every three lives. “save. ” Facebook later flagged Wheeler’s post for misinformation. And Laura Romero covered Gold for ABC News in a June 16, 2022, article called “Dr. Simone Gold, Anti-Vaccine Front Man, Convicted of Storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Yes, that name is Gold,” so to speak.
Interestingly, although the “Good Sciencing” online page doesn’t actually identify the authors of his articles, it does mention the online page, Stew Peters, a former bounty hunter, was the movie Died Suddenly, which I covered for Forbes in November 2022. This film claimed that many other people had died suddenly after receiving the covid-19 vaccines, but they didn’t actually provide enough evidence to back up their claims. So basically, Carlson makes claims based on a letter to the editor who made claims based on an unnamed blog that made claims based on a list that doesn’t even track what he claims to stick to and credits a guy who was a movie called Died Suddenly who made claims without really helping the claims. If you stick to what Carlson said to the letter, he will realize that he did not bring real numbers.