There you go again, making up things so you can make a point. No one ever said or even hinted COVID isn’t present, although I’d argue it is now and will for the foreseeable future be firmly endemic. I’m a microbiologist, remember? I actually worked in public health for years. We tend to believe in science.

There are also numerous things that aren’t COVID that can cause pneumonia. Until we know what that might have been in this case, any statements claiming with any surety that COVID caused these symptoms are purely supposition.

Uneducated? Yes, at least in math and/or statistics. Stupid? Not necessarily.

My education once stopped at the high school level and I can guarantee you I’d have made the same unsupported conclusions based on the data. I later attended college for nearly a decade and it opened my eyes to a world of bad and misleading statistics. All it took is a little education and a lot of critical thinking.

Tl;dr: The dogsbite data set is poorly constructed and misleading. Real science performed by actual scientists has overwhelmingly found the belief in inherently violent bully type breeds to be exactly that - just a belief.

This whole thread is a great example of why science education is so important. I suspect a not insubstantial percentage of the people touting the “70% of dog bites are by pitbulls” statistic have previously mentioned how correlation is not causation and decried the cherry picking of data.

Here we have many individuals cherry picking data while making claims that require correlation to be causation. They also seem to lack the skills required to evaluate the strength of a study or data set, otherwise they wouldn’t be quoting one where calling it shoddy would be a massive compliment. My cat makes better, then scratches dirt over it.

For anyone interested in actually learning about the nuance of the situation, plus why the dogsbite data set is pure horse shit, here are a few pertinent articles.

American Veterinary Medical Association - The Dangerous Dog Debate

Applied Animal Behaviour Science - Breed differences in canine aggression

American Psychological Association - Pit Bulls and Prejudice

BMC Genomics - Genetic testing of dogs predicts problem behaviors in clinical and nonclinical samples.)

Science - Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

I don’t understand people who comfortably deal in their own generalizations or absolutes. They’re comforting because they’re simple but they’re rarely correct because they’re colored by the random chance of your personal experience and your innate biases. This is why science education is so important: it teaches you that whichever observations you non-systemically generate are probably at least somewhat bullshit. They might make sense on a personal basis until you challenge the assumptions they’re based on.

Your experience is entirely different than mine. I’m very active on Lemmy and I rarely see tankies as defined. Guess I’m a concern troll! Or am I a tankie apologist? I also see you calling others that don’t meet your criteria concern trolls or tankie apologists. I guess we’re all concern trolls, apologists, or whatever else you want to say we are so you can write off whole cloth anyone that disagrees with you. On the bright side, you proudly proclaim your biases and assumptions are facts, so it’s easy enough to know it’s probably best just to block you.

Lol, “your ilk”. While I disagree with making assumptions about others based on little to no information, I do know that those who make assumptions about others based on information they’ve entirely fabricated can be safely ignored as they have little of consequence to contribute. Thanks for showing me that up front.

I’m pretty vocal about my desire for him to die as soon as possible.

No, that’s just common sense. It’s the tankie apologist/concern troll business. You seem to be comfortable labeling dissenters in a way that lumps them in with an out group even if there’s no clear indication they are part of that group.

This is common fascist behavior, for example during the United States’s McCarthy era. While persecuting leftists was the main goal, McCarthy and his cronies would also persecute anyone who objected, labeling them communist apologists or just communists themselves, ensuring their objections were disregarded.

That you can complain about fascism while unironically using this textbook fascist logic is enlightening.

“Anyone who disagrees with me is a concern troll”. Are we on c/conservative? Cause there’s sure a lot of conservative brand cope in here.

It’s the lemmy.world boogeyman. Nothing seems to piss off World users more than asking them for an example of all these tankies. The only way the OP can even respond to objections is by strawmanning hard.