{"id":270521,"date":"2023-07-31T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270521"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:35:52","slug":"the-lancets-scientific-chicanery-on-mortality-exposed-by-co2-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270521","title":{"rendered":"The Lancet\u2019s Scientific Chicanery on Mortality Exposed by CO2 Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Gregory Wrightstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A deception perpetrated by The Lancet is another example of how once respected institutions of the scientific community are not above abandoning principle to advance the fearmongering of a planet warming to purportedly dangerous levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported in the CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition\u2019s online newsletter, The Lancet\u00a0published a study<\/a>\u00a0showing that cold-related deaths account for 10 times the number of deaths due to heat \u2013 a comparison similar to other research findings about the relative danger of temperature extremes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, The Lancet pulled a sleight of hand when depicting the data in a chart to accentuate deaths due to heat and diminish those from cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trickery of The Lancet\u2019s Figure A is revealed by the CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition\u2019s revision in Figure B. Note that the X axis at the bottom in Figure A is in increments of 50 on the left (cold) side and in increments of 10 on the right (hot) side. This five-fold difference in scaling serves to exaggerate the number of deaths due to heat and minimize the cold-related deaths. This is technically correct, but intellectually wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the CO2 Coalition (Figure B):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The effect of the miscalibration is readily seen by comparing the two graphs. The bars for heat deaths are much longer in Figure A than in Figure B, whose X axis is calibrated the same for both cold and heat deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, The Lancet misuses a chart \u2013 when rightly employed, a tool for clarifying information \u2013 to obfuscate the fact that cold is significantly more dangerous than heat. This chicanery by a supposedly premier medical journal is not acceptable in any scientific journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep well; global warming is saving lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory Wrightstone<\/a>\u00a0is a geologist; executive director of the\u202fCO2 Coalition<\/a>, Arlington, VA; and author of\u00a0Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn\u2019t Want You to Know<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tags:<\/strong> <\/em>Gregory Wrightstone<\/a>, <\/em>Greg Wrightstone<\/a>, <\/em>The Lancet<\/a>, <\/em>The Lancet deceiving graph<\/a>, <\/em>The Lancet deception<\/a>, <\/em>deaths from heat<\/a>, <\/em>deaths from cold<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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So, The Lancet misuses a chart \u2013 when rightly employed, a tool for clarifying information \u2013 to obfuscate the fact that cold is significantly more dangerous than heat. 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