Well, Biden does feel like he's competing with himself and losing
They are rating the claim. The evidence does not support the claim. It's incredibly simple. If I say humans are not causing global warming and then point to a paper saying the same, it doesn't make my claim true. If the paper is flawed it doesn't support the claim, even if the author claims otherwise.
I really don't understand. The study identifies those declaring bankruptcy that had medical bills. That's simply not the same thing as those declaring bankruptcy because of medical bills.
"Lack of peer review" is a portion of a direct quote from the editor of the journal that published the editorial. WaPo simply states it didn't go through the same peer review that research papers do.
The author's explanation of his findings constitute evidence in support of Sanders claim, because it is merely an interpretation of the data that the author is presumed to be capable of parsing, and that interpretation is saying what Sanders is saying. The global warming equivalent would be an author of the study saying "this data shows that humans aren't responsible for climate change". The evidence might contradict other evidence, but it is still evidence. This is very similar to expert testimony in court. That testimony counts as evidence even if it is a complete lie.
And you're right, you don't understand, because the author's data is based on cited reasons for declaring bankruptcy by the bankruptcy filers, not solely just picking out bankruptcy filers that had medical bills. 66% of those filers cited the reason for their bankruptcy filing was for medical reasons. Somehow you keep overlooking this fact.
Besides the point. It was completely irresponsible for WaPo to leave that quote in without challenging it, because it is patently false; it's not even debatable.
Oh ok, so as long as you cite anything, regardless of quality or validity, a claim can't be marked false.
That's not what the research actually said and this exact stat is literally what we've been talking about the whole time. Don't say it's being ignored because you can't figure out what's going on.
The question was if medical expenses or loss of work related to illness contributed to their bankruptcy. 66.5% said one or both factors contributed somewhat or very much("somewhat" including "slightly", "fairly", and "moderately"). Therefore "contributed" very explicitly does not mean caused given the broad range assigned to its definition. Therefore stating 66.5% of bankruptcies were caused by medical bills is not supported by the data.
Huh? The editor doesn't even say this editorial wasn't reviewed. It just says a lack of review doesn't imply inaccuracies. WaPo, when referring specifically to the editorial in question before that quote, merely states it didn't receive the same review research papers do.
Fucking how? There is literally nothing disingenuous about it. Like its literally an accurate report of how things went down.
Edit: just saw the super delegates part. Not sure how I missed that paragraph. I definitely don't agree with that part.
However I will say. A large portion of super delegates were pledged well before it came to convention time, so I think anyone claiming that they were distributed purely on the basis of who had more delegates in the end is not fully accurate either.
Nope. But if a citation supports a claim, you saying that it doesn't support it is a non-sensical argument.
Did you read the study?
There were multiple data points that led them to their conclusion, not a single question.
"Lack of review" is irrelevant when there is no lack of review and carries the implication that there wasn't. The author of the study has asked them to retract it for those reasons, as he claims it besmirches his reputation.
A bad source doesn't support a claim. This is not hard. If I cite a paper that's wrong I haven't supported my claim.
The definitions I cited are from the study being discussed. The quote you have here is in reference to the CBP study, not this one.
WaPo said it didn't receive the same review. The person directly responsible for editorial content at the journal that published this editorial said that no peer review doesn't mean inaccurate.
Support for a claim doesn't mean that the claim is true. Doesn't change the fact that the author of the study is saying what Sanders is saying (even if they were both wrong, which the evidence doesn't suggest that they are)
And there's a lot more that went into the study and their conclusions than the question you quoted, including the basis for their investigation.
And if we're chiefly concerned about the veracity of the claim, then other data like the data from the CBP surveys should not be ignored.
Let me know when you can demonstrate what is being argued here because this is yet again missing the point and I despise arguing in circles.
KHarvey16 I really do try to have good faith discussions with everyone, but when the discussion continues to pivot around strawmen and circular logic, it just becomes an unproductive use of my time.
Maybe take the issue up with Elizabeth Warren (one of the co-authors of the CBP survey) and she'll be willing to indulge you, but I'm done with this conversation.
I don't need to justify bowing out of a discussion. I could have just left without responding to you at all, but I did not because I would rather be transparent about my intent.
I'm sure if you found yourself arguing with a flat-earther, for instance, there would come a point where you realize that nothing productive with come from the discussion and you're better dropping the argument. Same deal here. Anyone who knows me here knows that I have no problems with heated discussions, or admitting when I'm wrong about something.
And now that I've set the record straight on that, I'm ending my communication with you. Have a good day.
You made unfounded accusations so you could bail without acknowledging that your position fails basic scrutiny. Call that whatever you want.
Now that I've set the record straight you can keep ending that communication. If you want to continue I remain right here, ready to maintain the better argument.
It's very unfortunate, especially because his argument hinges nearly entirely on the use of a single word ("contribute") in a single question that he doesn't seem to understand the definition of which actually supports the findings of the study:
Yeah your argument is technically right but what's the point in being that pedantic? It would be like criticizing someone who said smoking kills 400,000 people a year by saying well, actually, you're wrong, diseases linked to smoking killed 400,000 people each year. It's not a mistake worthy of three pinnochios. It's only worth arguing if you are trying to distract from the main point that nobody should be worried about going bankrupt from medical debt.You made unfounded accusations so you could bail without acknowledging that your position fails basic scrutiny. Call that whatever you want.
Now that I've set the record straight you can keep ending that communication. If you want to continue I remain right here, ready to maintain the better argument.
Yeah your argument is technically right but what's the point in being that pedantic? It would be like criticizing someone who said smoking kills 400,000 people a year by saying well, actually, you're wrong, diseases linked to smoking killed 400,000 people each year. It's not a mistake worthy of three pinnochios. It's only worth arguing if you are trying to distract from the main point that nobody should be worried about going bankrupt from medical debt.
Smoking doesn't kill anyone, cessation of respiratory functions kill people and sometimes smoking intensifies the likelihood of respiratory failure.
I wish more people learned to use the ignore function on this site.
Smoking doesn't kill anyone, cessation of respiratory functions kills people and sometimes smoking intensifies the likelihood of respiratory failure.
Are you asserting that lung cancer wouldn't exist without smoking? Or perhaps, pneumonia?Remove smoking and those causes of death don't exist. In contrast, removing medical debt for an unknown number of these respondents would not prevent bankruptcy.
@brainchild isn't an enemy just because he's bullish on Bernie
Are you asserting that lung cancer wouldn't exist without smoking? Or perhaps, pneumonia?
brainchild is a solid dude.Alternatively, toning down being so pedantic about everything. "Fact checking" can turn into "Well, Ackshually..." real fast.
Let's get some perspective here. brainchild isn't an enemy just because he's bullish on Bernie. Like...come on guys 😞
Cancers of various types are also results of smoking, and all can kill you. A direct line can be drawn from smoking through the resulting illnesses straight to death. Remove smoking and those causes of death don't exist.
In the cases of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia or diabetes, it is not the case that smoking kills, it's those individual diseases that kills. For lung cancer, it is the metastasizing of tumors. For pneumonia, it is the viral infection. Smoking merely increases the chance of you acquiring those diseases. That's why sometimes non-smokers get lung cancer and frequent smokers can go through their entire life without fatal respiratory problems. Diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, happen independent of smoking as well, to my knowledge.
- Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
- Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
LOL what? You "have to be" vigilant about defending a political candidate on a somewhat obscure video game forum? That's your calling? And LMAO at your casting it as some noble pursuit and service to humanity.And let me just say, the reason I might seem so aggressive in defending Bernie in many cases is because I know for a fact that if I didn't actively investigate disingenuous claims about him on the internet, places like this very forum would be rife with misinformation about him. How do I know this? Because I've seen/let it happen just to see how long it would go unaddressed, and it remained as such until I stepped in to challenge/dispel that misinformation.
Trust me when I say I would very much rather not have to be vigilant about these things, but somebody has to do it.
Has Kessler and the WaPo fact checker unit covered any of Biden's whoopsy daisies like I was the Parkland shooting VP or MLK died in the late 70s or the Rashomon like war stories he's been slinging or is that just nah
In the cases of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia or diabetes, it is not the case that smoking kills, it's those individual diseases that kills. For lung cancer, it is the metastasizing of tumors. For pneumonia, it is the viral infection. Smoking merely increases the chance of you acquiring those diseases. That's why sometimes non-smokers get lung cancer and frequent smokers can go through their entire life without fatal respiratory problems.
I'm unsure which "causes of death" you're referring to that would be removed with the removal of smoking. All smoking-related illnesses I know of exist even without the need for the person in question to have smoked in their life.
I should note that I, personally, don't believe there's a meaningful distinction between "smoking kills" and "many respiratory fatalities are exacerbated by smoking". It is only relevant in a philosophy/linguistics class where you're discussing Hume and Wittgenstein. Which is fine! I like philosophy and linguistics, but I'd rather not have my media-informed politics bogged down by semantic debate. It is like saying "climate change isn't meaningful because climate always changes". This kind of pedantry is pretty much never productive.
LOL what? You "have to be" vigilant about defending a political candidate on a somewhat obscure video game forum? That's your calling? And LMAO at your casting it as some noble pursuit and service to humanity.
This is goofy.
Yes, in fact there was an article on the latter on the top bar of wapo.com as you typed this post.
A person who smokes may develop an illness they would not have received had they not been a smoker. There is potentially a direct line between smoking, illness and death. You're trying hard to salvage a poor analogy but it's not working.
A good analogy to this study would be taking the number of people who died from cancer, seeing how many smoked, and saying that number were killed by smoking. Never mind what kind of cancer it was. But hey, it supports the point smoking is bad and we all agree on that, so who cares if we fudge things a little?
It's a perfectly good analogy, watch:
A person who has medical debt may have bankruptcy they would not have received had they not had medical debt. There is potentially a direct line between medical debt, and bankruptcy.
Of course! The whole point is this study does not identify those cases exclusively.
hence the analogy of being pendantic about saying smoking kills
To be honest, I'm not so sure that the party wouldn't implode in an emergency kill switch situation. To even have a Dem candidate be successful enough where that would be necessary would mean that the party not be the same party that it is today. Our current electorate would never nominate someone that needed to be torpedoed by superdelegates; too many safeguards to break through before it would get to that point.
Addressing disingenuous pedantry and not allowing sophistry to flourish is incredibly draining, and since the whole point of these corrections/demerits/attacks on Sanders are put forth under the guise of being for "clarity", it's an important thing to stop the spread of misinformation. Misinformation about political candidates and policies shouldn't be allowed to spread— because tangibly bad things can result—no matter what forum or social media platform it's being perpetuated on.LOL what? You "have to be" vigilant about defending a political candidate on a somewhat obscure video game forum? That's your calling? And LMAO at your casting it as some noble pursuit and service to humanity.
This is goofy.
Huh? No. The study doesn't identify those people. It identifies a lot of people for which that more exclusive group is a subset, but then tries to describe the entire larger group as if it were the smaller. Do you understand? I feel you're not really seeing the disconnect here.
When people say smoking kills they take everyone who has died from smoking related diseases (which you can get from other things besides smoking) as a smoker and attributes it to smoking. Much like when Bernie sanders says 500,000 people go bankrupt from medical debt, he has taken everyone who has gone bankrupt (which you can go into with other reasons) with medical debt and attributes it to medical debt because in both cases, as you say:
A person who smokes may develop an illness they would not have received had they not been a smoker. There is potentially a direct line between smoking, illness and death.
Similarly:
A person who has medical debt may have bankruptcy they would not have received had they not had medical debt. There is potentially a direct line between medical debt, and bankruptcy.