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Posted on: 2023-11-14
Elon Musk’s claim that ventilators killed COVID-19 patients confuses correlation with causation

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Ventilators, not COVID, killed hospitalized COVID patients

Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk, 2023-10-31
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Posted on: 2022-10-05
Neither medical treatments nor errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

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“The third leading cause of death is MD-directed treatments”

Source: TikTok, Peter Glidden, 2022-09-18
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Posted on: 2022-06-26
The claim that medical doctors are more likely to kill than firearms isn’t supported by evidence

Claim:

“In America, you’re 6x more likely to be killed by a Doctor than a gun”

Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2022-06-13

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Elon Musk’s claim that ventilators killed COVID-19 patients confuses correlation with causation

Neither medical treatments nor errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

The claim that medical doctors are more likely to kill than firearms isn’t supported by evidence

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