Word count isn't proportional to weight of evidence

Cut & paste can be a bit tiresome.

All these comments from naturopaths and the like all essentially pull figures out of the air. Perhaps I could have some help allocating a Disinfo number for this tactic. Again I say this figure of 100,000 has clearly been shown to be wrong -let alone 783,936. I would imagine that the US medical systme has a broadly similar rate of ADRs etc so 783,936 (a strangely precise figure without confidence intervals and therefore rubbish) is out by more than an order of magnitude.

This piece is like that anecdote talking about all the days off until it turns out you only work two days a year! A process of double-counting and false addition and multiplication which to be honest a schoolchild could see through.

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