Found a big threat to our democracy here.
Statistics have long been used by white supremacy to deny the science from the experts.
What is wrong with our rules based order that it allows for such conspiracy theories to flourish? https://t.co/KyFlJR52OL
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
I know I said the site was going to be better in 2023. It was a lot better yesterday, and that is going to be the norm for at least half of days. Either way, you come here and you get the news, and maybe also some in-depth insight. If you don’t get the in-depth insight, you still get the news and a few jokes.
I’m not transferring effort from this site to Twitter. Twitter is just much easier and requires much less effort than actually writing essays. (The site was not particularly good when I got my Twitter back – basically, I feel like if I can do a good Twitter account with only small effort, it’s better than not doing that.)
Today, I posted a good thread on Twitter about Damar Hamlin, the NFL player who had cardiac arrest on the field on Monday (and is currently in critical condition). There is an entire army of people on Twitter spamming anyone who says this event was not totally normal. They are claiming it happens all the time.
Several people replied to my tweet about Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest by claiming this happens all the time and is very normal.
Well, I looked into it, and that is actually not true.
Below I will post what I learned about football injury and heart health.
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
The Wikipedia page entitled “Health issues in American football,” which is pretty comprehensive, only mentions the word “heart” once and it is in relation to the use of HGH. pic.twitter.com/I2iVBOEern
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
It should be understood that in the ye olden days of American football, the rules were much looser and people took much more serious hits.
In 1978, Jack Tatum’s broke Darryl Stingley’s spine, causing quadriplegia. No heart failure. pic.twitter.com/sUirF6gLFz
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
The one person who did suffer heart failure during a game was also the one person who died during a game: Chuck Hughes in 1971.
It turned out he had undiagnosed and advanced arteriosclerosis – this is very serious heart disease. pic.twitter.com/3lMPYleE1f
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
Medical science has increased significantly since 1971, as has American litigiousness.
The NFL does not want to get sued, and they therefore require players to undergo some of the most extreme medical testing imaginable, most of it focusing on heart health. pic.twitter.com/PYcN1SqVBO
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
I hate to post a medical study, as I don’t usually find that doing that is very useful, but for the sake of thoroughness I will note that a 2009 study found that NFL players, even as they retire and age, do not have any increased likelihood of heart problems. pic.twitter.com/qcoMxJwDrD
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
Aside from Hamlin and Hughes, the only other person in all of American football who had a heart attack during a game (that I was able to find) was a 13-year-old high school player who had a heart attack in September of 2022.
That had obviously never happened before. pic.twitter.com/Ho5kkRSBuh
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
In conclusion, we don’t know what caused Hamlin’s cardiac event, but we must definitely conclude that this is very unique
It is absolutely fair to speculate.
Call us conspiracy theorists all you want, but there is a very good chance that climate change was responsible. pic.twitter.com/jfGQNrWlD6
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) January 3, 2023
The left narrative currently is that he had a very rare heart condition that primarily only affects teenagers (and is not associated with American football):
Also, please do note – this is fake:
It’s extremely frustrating that people will just spread this sort of thing regardless of how obviously fake it is, but we have some IQ issues on the right (not nearly as many as on the left, of course). And maybe it seemed real to someone smart, I guess.
I have said since forever that these fake things that come out and go viral whenever something big happens that is bad for the leftist narrative are almost certainly planted on purpose by agents of the system (as opposed to being jokes or whatever). Frankly, I think that Snopes is the one doing it. Remember, in the 1990s when everyone was getting computer viruses and having to pay for anti-virus software, many smart people speculated that the anti-virus companies were producing the viruses.
Sometimes, the memes Snopes debunks are versions of other memes where something was changed to make the information wrong. Like, someone goes and changes “Michael Yeadon, a former chief scientist of a division at Pfizer who went on to found a successful biotech company” to “Michael Yeadon, the former vice president of Pfizer,” and then Snopes goes in and says “actually, this is all wrong because he’s not the former vice president of the company.”
In this case, their entire “mostly false” rating was based on someone changing his title in the memes.
It’s surely very convenient for them. I guarantee that they are going to “debunk” that fake vax tweet from the fake Jew doctor.
Me saying “stop it” obviously isn’t going to do anything. But I thought I should mention it. At least maybe you, dear reader, can avoid ending up feeling dumb.