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This is terrifying.
Especially since this is the maternity ward, where young moms and babies exist. And we have no idea how widespread it is, what's causing it, if mothers/babies are affected, how this affects people in their older ages, anything.
Test the ice machine.
I’ve filled up at more than one ice machine in a hospital where the bottom of the cup tasted metallic. A truly awful experience but a pattern of events I can draw a straight line through.
I just want to point out that even extremely unlikely scenarios happen all the time, given how many possible "tries" there are. People win the lottery, survive falling out of the sky, etc.
How many hospital floors are there in the world?
Yeah but you dont ignore something like this still. Should be looked into.
Exactly. Coincidence does not necessarily equal causation, but it does suggest a possible link that should be investigated.
This cannot be emphasized enough. Back in the 90s data came out regarding breast implants and autoimmune disorders. There was a Frontline on this topic but I’ve been unable to track it down, probably due to age.
Essentially, silicone breast implant recipients were occasionally suing after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. The correlation had people thinking there was causation, however, when you sliced the data to look at rates of autoimmune among the general population of women and the rates of autoimmune among women who’ve received silicone breast implants there was no statistical difference between the two.
Two unrelated things were happening at the same time.
In the UK there were a number of cancer clusters of rare cancers and then the speculation started. One idea was that all the cases were near electric substations, but again, there are a lot of people who live or work near those. In the end, I think it was decided it was just chance.
One way of visualising this that they showed on the program was to scatter a handful of M&Ms or dried beans or similar on a tabletop. When you scatter, there's a very high probability that several end up very close together just by chance - and there we have our cancer 'cluster'.
I wonder how many people have benign tumors and never figure it out. Maybe they just have easy access to the mri machine.