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Offline rangerrebew

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The Lancet stretches half the axis and then heat deaths look worse…
« on: July 24, 2023, 05:47:52 am »
The Lancet stretches half the axis and then heat deaths look worse…
By Jo Nova

What do you do when not enough people die to suit your religion? Distort the axis and hope no one notices.

Welcome to government-science, where one of top journals in the world uses graphic design tricks for political convenience. In this graph from the paper, 10 excess deaths from the heat looks “bigger” than 50 excess deaths from cold. Isn’t the whole point of a graph so we can compare the bars “at a glance”?

Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right. Doesn’t that tell a different story?

Thanks to Patrick Moore @EcoSenseNow:

The journal “Lancet” published the chart on left with unequal X-Axis* to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. …This is disgraceful for a supposedly scientific journal.

https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/the-lancet-stretches-half-the-axis-and-then-heat-deaths-look-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-lancet-stretches-half-the-axis-and-then-heat-deaths-look-worse
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Re: The Lancet stretches half the axis and then heat deaths look worse…
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2023, 04:32:01 pm »
The charts in question:

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