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MikePal
I don't think you've read the link in Welsh's post #69...
I did and while I agree with some, some things jumped out, fast and quick.
The interview basically read as a "don't be angry, the study had nothing to do with the new committee, even though we intentionally timed the release, we know we didn't dig deep enough ( as Ive been saying), we know we don't have the data we actually need, everyone else is blowing it out of context" damage control spin...
Oh and Mike, if you read the interview and Im sure you did. Notice that she admits and is hopeful....this unfunded study.......leads to more
wink wink.
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My study just looks at sheer numbers, it doesn’t talk about causation, it doesn’t talk about prevention strategies. It just says, “Hey, here are the groups we need to look at for prevention strategies. These are the injuries that are occurring, and we need to really contextualize them and understand them.”
Cant suck and blow at the same time. Which is it
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The numbers are really high, so it’s definitely a problem that we have to take seriously,” said Astrid Gutmann, one of the study’s authors
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On Monday, the Canadian Paediatric Society also issued a new statement urging doctors to warn families against keeping firearms in homes where children live as a way of preventing injury and death.
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We definitely have a problem,” she said. “These are preventable injuries.”
Perhaps but they don't even make the list of what does send kids to the ERs.....Not sure how a person can make that bold a statement when....and sorry 12.4 per 100,000 (do the math) while it certainly bears looking at ( I know how stupid I was as a teen)......thats not a problem, its not some epidemic.
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Dr. Natasha Saunders, the study’s lead author and a paediatrician and associate scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, said the findings are astonishing.
Seriously, both Welsh and I were quick to put 2 and 2 together and point out all they are really doing is stating the obvious.
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“A child or youth injured by a gun each day in this province is staggering,” Saunders said
Gee sensationalist much Ms co Author..........
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“The majority of these injuries are unintentional and are entirely preventable, making this an important public health problem that needs to be addressed with targeted prevention programs,” Gutmann said.
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Now to be fair, in the articles that the media in turn sensationalized they (the authors) said others things, things we shouldn't be concerned about and were more than fair. Im not quoting them in the interest of fairness, simply because its to save space. So instead just saying "to be fair" and balanced they do say other things...
But it they can't make up their minds ( see their quotes, the interview), if they depending on who they are talking to can't keep their recommendations straight, if they (the authors) talk out of one side of their mouth and admit that really, what they have are pink flags that warrant further deeper studies, acknowledge the data was lacking, acknowledge this and that.
Then out of the other side of their mouths...call for immediate targeted preventative measures etc. I get it, by hyping it, sensationalizing it themselves.....maybe theres grant money down the road for....um........more studies.
Bottom line depending on who they talking to they are "sucking and blowing"
"dirty bath water"
