• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      Neither source seems to point towards fudged numbers, more towards an increase in suicides as a societal issue to be tackled. Nobody said there’s no suicide in China.

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              All countries have a political interest in showing themselves as better, though. I’m aware enough of China’s history to know that your allegations are just that, allegations.

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                They do but most countries have a means of tracking national suicide rates. China intentionally doesn’t and this is a repeated pattern with the country’s healthcare reporting.

                We simply can’t even argue about it because the data is unavailable. So this claim is also unverifiable.

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                  So in other words, you don’t have any proof, and are using the lack of proof as evidence. That’s not how proof works.

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                    That’s silly.

                    In other words the data is incomplete from the top so any further discussion is speculation at best.