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TheCatt wrote:

Malcolm wrote:

TheCatt wrote: It says "Death Toll" not poisoning.

It's off either way. Booze plus tobacco can be linked to way more than half a million deaths per year. Acute poisoning is nowhere near 500K, though.

The chart never said acute poisoning.

Then wtf are the numbers on the righthand side?

Malcolm wrote:

TheCatt wrote:

Malcolm wrote: It's off either way. Booze plus tobacco can be linked to way more than half a million deaths per year. Acute poisoning is nowhere near 500K, though.

The chart never said acute poisoning.

Then wtf are the numbers on the righthand side?

I dunno, try reading the chart.

You and reading. wtf?

Maybe if I had the CDC link handy instead of a shitty asterisk or something besides "death toll per year" to work with.

"Death toll" those are the words I'm looking for, congrats!

TheCatt wrote:"Death toll" those are the words I'm looking for, congrats!

Meaningless. At least not without some sort of clarification. That could refer to anything from direct death due to overdose or poisoning. It could be the mortality rate among all users over their lifetime which would of course be 100% for everything because everyone dies. It could be anything in between.

tl;dr: That text and those numbers are bullshit, but the story they are trying to tell isn't wrong.

You have to tell me when this golden age of free and unbiased science you continually refer to took place.

I don't have to tell you fuck all.

Mostly from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.

EDIT: The physical sciences anyway. Social and medical sciences were biased af.

Mostly from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.

Pretty sure a lot of suspicious government money funded that research.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they results weren't pretty focused on getting things right instead of being political or faking the results they want. It was driven by the need to discover the accurate science and convert it into concrete engineering as effectively as possible to better fight the Nazi's and/or Commies.

Moving sidewalks rule, but we always haul-ass down them, dodging the standers.

Close, but not quite.

Hey, remember the HMMV's on Hoth?

You know it;s legit cause it says Hoth on the side. AMERICA FUCK YEAAAAHHH

e: wow I was drunk last night. Hope I just kept it in this thread

I still can't figure out why this thread exists.

Is this Gordo's Favorites for images?