What distinguishes conspiracy theory from conspiracy fact, and who makes that determination? — Galuchat
Unfortunately, in the publication of WHO data on 18th March – Situation Report 58 – they shifted the reporting cutoff time from 0900 CET to 0000 CET. This means that comparability is compromised because there is an overlap between the last two WHO data publications
The increase in case numbers for Guyana takes the global total to 153,523 confirmed cases (not 153,517 cases as detailed in the report). The increase in death numbers for Lebanon takes the global total to 5736 deaths (not 5735 deaths as detailed in the report)
This post makes it sound like the WHO has no idea what they're talking about. It's really not true.
Why we stopped relying on data from the World Health Organization
Until March 18 we relied on the World Health Organization (WHO) as our source. We aimed to rely on the WHO as they are the international agency with the mandate to provide official estimates on the pandemic. The WHO reports this data for each single day and they can be found here at the WHO’s site.
Since March 18 it became unfortunately impossible to rely on the WHO data to understand how the pandemic is developing over time. With Situation Report 58 the WHO shifted the reporting cutoff time from 0900 CET to 0000 CET. This means that comparability is compromised because there is an overlap between these two WHO data publications (Situation Reports 57 and 58).
Additionally we found many errors in the data published by the WHO when we went through all the daily Situation Reports. We immediately notified the WHO and are in close contact with the WHO’s team to correct the errors that we pointed out to them. We document all errors we found. The main problem we see with the WHO data is that these errors are not communicated by the WHO itself (some Errata were published by the WHO – in the same place as the Situation Reports –, but most errors were either retrospectively corrected without public notice or remain uncorrected).
Here is our detailed documentation of where the WHO’s data is sourced from and how we corrected its data – we also provide several options to download all corrected data there. As of March 18 we no longer maintain this database for the reason that the WHO data can not be used for reliable time-series information.
I never said nor implied that — NOS4A2
And you're trying to claim that many people will think the WHO has "blood on its hands", and won't escape THE HORRIFYING SCANDAL OF THE MINOR SPREADSHEET ERRORS AND AMBIGUOUSLY WORDED TWEET because you're completely supportive of the WHO and its track record for providing excellent advice on how to deal with a pandemic. — fdrake
He isn't really trying to claim that. He's just putting the words out there so they can be found by search engines, and so other members will oblige to debate him on them so he and his posts get even more exposure. It's just trolling, and not the fun kind. — Echarmion
And I have a Dear Abby question for you: why do North Americans call housemates/flatmates 'roommates'? — Evil
Get involved in philosophical discussions about knowledge, truth, language, consciousness, science, politics, religion, logic and mathematics, art, history, and lots more. No ads, no clutter, and very little agreement — just fascinating conversations.