jeffblue101
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stop being dense, your question was about what discarded meant in the paper. I just showed you that it means that those cases are just misdiagnosis of Microcephaly. Not that hard to understand.
96% Microcephaly in Brazil not Related to Zika Virus
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stop being dense, your question was about what discarded meant in the paper. I just showed you that it means that those cases are just misdiagnosis of Microcephaly. Not that hard to understand.
Jose Fly
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Let's go with your conclusion, that the "other 462 cases" were discarded because they weren't actually microcephalic.
Even if that's so, it still doesn't address the issue at hand. Remember, the original claim is that "270 cases have had microcephaly confirmation, and 6 with respect to the Zika virus" means 264 cases of confirmed microcephaly were tested for the virus and came back negative. The problem is, it doesn't say that, yet LifeNews and Breitbart reported it that way.
jeffblue101
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its clearly referring to Microcephaly cases. as for the comma I thought you were confused on the punctuation but that doesn't seem to be issue. It's clear what discarded means in this report you just don't admit you were wrong on the issue.
Jose Fly
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jeffblue101
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they merely repeated unofficial numbers from CNN and then put 1 and 1 together and came to the conclusion that zika is basically all hype. The official numbers are much worse for a zika-microcephaly connection.
Jose Fly
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IOW, they assumed their own conclusions and imposed them on the data, exactly as I said.
Cite?
1PeaceMaker
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That's a problem, isn't it? My son was just uniformly tiny at the start but otherwise healthy.
Babies are individuals. Babies with microcephaly could easily just be non-standard children or children with some challenges like many of us have. They are not monsters or rejects of nature. Many go on to be handsomely average and successful people. Others are handicapped but fill the lives of their loved ones with joy.
All deserve life and this panic over microcephaly is killing children and preventing even more from being conceived. Sad. :sigh:
jeffblue101
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so media members are not allowed to think anymore in any matter that you, Jose fly, finds unacceptable even though their conclusion was right.
I just did, "http://combateaedes.saude.gov.br/noticias/244-ministerio-da-saude-investiga-3-448-casos-suspeitos-de-microcefalia" this report comes directly from the Brazilian government.
Jose Fly
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Or they could have just contacted the BMoH and asked.
How?
What in that report supports your assertion?
jeffblue101
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so in your mind 2.2% is acceptable to justify all this media hype
Jose Fly
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Where did you get 2.2% from?