The Cellar - 8/25/2003: French violence against women

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Originally posted by juju
Well, I guess it's come down to this... we must outlaw heat! This can be most efficiently done by destroying the sun. If not for ourselves, then for the children. The poor, miserable children. Won't someone think of them?

"We do know this much: It was we who blacked the sky..." -- Mropheus, the Matrix

Not the sun. I loved children, particularly fried.:p

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!" - C. M. Burns

I would imagine France is playing with the numbers to support the freakin' Kyoto Treaty or to pacify the global warming folks or something. I'll have to go back and check but it may be that 13,000 died during the heat wave and not necessarily because of the heat wave but the wording is carefully constructed to create the impression of causality.

France is known for keeping dubious "cause of death" stats such as not counting a heart-attack death a death by heart attack unless a doctor is present during the heart attack. If this isn't perfectly accurate (I read it a few years ago) - French practice is at the very least consistent with an effort to deliberately lower the total figure of deaths by heart failure.

They may be doing something similar with heat-wave deaths - just in the opposite direction for some cause as yet unknown. At least that would explain the amost casual reporting of the number.

Just a hunch.