Recent deaths in young people in England and Wales

Re:Recent deaths in young people in England and Wales by phreeza on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:42PM (#28856621)

I agree the study they linked to is an unfortunate choice but I looked elsewhere for mortality numbers for myocarditis and they don't seem to be that far off [1]. In the end I also don't think this is a meaningful finding, but I do believe it is worth looking at the data at least a bit and not dismissing it out of hand because of the venue where it was published. It's good to keep an open mind.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370379/#:~:tex...).

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Re:Recent deaths in young people in England and Wales by msrenee on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:52PM (#28858570)

What I got from that study is that the prognosis for myocarditis is very dependent on the cause and how much damage happens before the cause is removed.

I dismissed it initially due to the website it was on. Then I spent a good half hour digging through their arguments and finding out whether they had any basis in reality. Now I know for sure it has no real merit and I've wasted a decent amount of time on it. For a more extreme example, I'm not going to go through every blog post the KKK puts up just because they used some scientific-sounding arguments to argue that black people are bad.

I get where people are coming from trying to consider all the data, but some sources aren't worth the effort.

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