You may not have noticed, but recently you have to do more and more of your own research to determine the actual facts that exist about issues impacting our country today. As a commentary writer, who is retired, I have the time to do this, and am somewhat sensitive to quoted statistics that don’t make sense.
One recently quoted statistic by President Trump just got my full my attention. In a recent news conference celebrating the destroying of Venezuelan ships allegedly carrying drugs, the president stated that drugs “killed 300,000 in our country last year.” Obviously, this was another swipe at the supposedly out of control societal ales which occurred under the Biden administration.
It wasn’t hard to check last year’s drug deaths since it is readily available from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. They reported the following: “In the United States, in 2024, there were an estimated 80,391 deaths due to drug overdoses, which includes deaths from illicit drug use. This figure represents a significant decrease of about 27% from the approximately 110,037 overdose deaths estimated in 2023. The decline in overdose deaths is notable as it is projected to be the lowest annual total since 2019. Synthetic opioids like fentanyl remain the primary driver behind most of these deaths, although deaths from these substances also decreased substantially during 2024.”
Almost a quarter of million error in reporting this information to the American people. Why do that? Just for personal embellishment? And how many more statistical falsehoods are being fed to Americans by the present administration for the same reason? I have found many.
Rightfully so, most Americans simply accept these doled out statistics as factual because they are coming from the highest office in the United States government. So why would anyone in their wildest imagination assume they might be false? And to make matters worse, the news media has been so successfully brow beaten by the ‘fake news’ label that they no longer even bother to question or correct these outlandish espoused statistics.
As someone degreed in statistical research, with a love for stats, I am abhorred at what is now taking place. But, obviously there is no end in sight to this foolishness, and it is now possibly to the point that no one should believe any statistics espoused by our government leaders.
Frightfully, I am talking about a very dangerous situation, the alteration of facts by government officials to comply with their agenda. And we are not talking about some minor overemphasis just to prove at point, but major statistical atrocities.
So do your own fact checking if you really want to know the truth about important issues facing our country, because your research is the only one you can now trust.
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