(09-08-2022 02:52 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(09-08-2022 02:16 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  

(09-08-2022 02:10 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  Naomi Wolf is a raging moron.

I beg to differ, even though you would know about raging morons, being one and all.

Naomi was a liberal that saw the truth about Covid and the Covidians. She is at least intellectually honest.

She claimed there were over 100,000 deaths from anorexia and bulimia in the US when the real number was around 300.

She claimed there were 3,500,000 anorexia a bulimia patients in the UK, which at the time would have been 95% of the female population. The real number was around 110,000.

She also wrote a book on sexual crimes and punishment that was completely based on her misunderstanding a legal term in the Old Bailey records and was corrected live on the radio after she wrote the book.

She falsely claimed the Covid vaccine caused a 44% abortion rate.

She is PHD of lit who wasn’t great at that and is terrible at statistics and medicine.

I'd like to see the context for both her and your statistics here

I see about 10,000 people died in the US per year.... which isn't her number unless she has chosen a 10 year period... and certainly isn't your number of 300.

Priory care which is the largest mental health care company in the UK says...
UK eating disorder statistics
Research suggests that:

Between 1.25 and 3.4 million people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder
Around 25% of those affected by an eating disorder are male

That is much closer to her number (you seem to have added the 'female' part, but that's not important right now) which is much closer than your claim of 110,000. If she meant female (you didn't say she daid female) then the number would be about 1mm to 2,8mm... but I'm sure she just took the biggest number quoted and ran with it. That's what people do. You should take the smallest number and run with that, but you've uncovered a number that doesn't even really make sense.

Hint... The UK has about 34mm women. That's a FAR cry from your claim of closer to 4. You've missed a decimal point somewhere.

It sure seems to me that she's much closer than you are..... by orders of magnitude... though I'll concede that she may be not being especially careful with definitions... while your numbers seem to essentially ignore them.

Edit... I do this for a living (analyze population health statistics and make recoomendations for a large healthcare company)... and I looked deeper because your numbers didn't make sense.

As to the 44% abortion rate, I suspect she meant a 44% rise in abortions. Or maybe a 44% rise in some subset of abortions... like miscarriages or something... or that the rate of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated was 44% higher... IDK, but you've presented it as an absurd number... and the way people look at stats like this, I can tell you that it is not. That doesn't mean that the vaccines caused abortions to rise... I'd have to dig much deeper to know that,.... but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the vaccinated vs unvaccinated populations had wildly different abortion statistics.