> 41-year-old Mohammad al-Hasanat didn’t die of starvation — he suffered from untreated diabetes and died from complications of severe hypercatabolism.
Starvation causes hypercatabolism; it means your body is eating its own proteins. Statements all the way up to Netanyahu that no starvation is happening in Gaza are deeply, profoundly absurd.
boxed · 3h ago
Is the title here editorialized? Or did BBC update their title because the old one was incorrect?
Fred27m · 49m ago
The changed title is because of something the BBC do repeatedly.
- Put up a factually incorrect article accusing Israel of something
- Let it sit on the front page for a day or two so a lot of people read it
- Take it off the front page and quietly correct it
Chris2048 · 44m ago
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regnull · 16m ago
What does it have to do with the substance of the comment?
Chris2048 · 5m ago
It provides context. The post was a bare claim without context or evidence, But a poster without any history.
I'd say if you post an accusative claim on a controversial topic as your first post with a new account, it should probably include far more information.
Fred27m · 33m ago
That's correct. I normally just read but thought I'd comment today. (I might have commented before on an old account but if so I've forgotten the details.)
You can clearly see that the BBC edited this headline. I've seen them do this a lot, but whether you believe me or want to investigate further yourself is entirely up to you.
Chris2048 · 7m ago
Perhaps, but the effect is what would otherwise be called a "throwaway" account.
boxed · 28m ago
So? I've seen BBC do this before. Not to mention posting much much worse things and just quietly taking it down without offering some apology or article to try to set the record straight.
Israeli government is using famine to kill people in Gaza. It's a genocide, all countries should condemn Israeli government and demand to stop the ethnic cleansing.
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asdefghyk · 3h ago
article says ....she had suffered from leukaemia......????
Then rest of article does not discuss it ... need more analysis it seems....
ceejayoz · 3h ago
I mean, does it matter?
Patients with conditions like leukemia (and children, and the elderly) are going to suffer first from malnutrition. Even if the hospitals hadn't all been blown up.
delichon · 1h ago
See "cancer-related cachexia". Malnutrition can be secondary to advanced cancer. It is common in advanced leukemia and lymphoma.
ceejayoz · 46m ago
> Malnutrition can be secondary to advanced cancer.
Advanced cancer can be secondary to blown up hospitals.
progne · 18m ago
Blown up hospitals can be secondary to firing rockets from the parking lot and using them as ammo dumps and military headquarters. You can take this line of reasoning back to the big bang without addressing the quality of evidence of a severe food shortage.
https://xcancel.com/Israel/status/1950259113948070197 / https://www.instagram.com/p/DMs4qUlInQE/
> 41-year-old Mohammad al-Hasanat didn’t die of starvation — he suffered from untreated diabetes and died from complications of severe hypercatabolism.
Starvation causes hypercatabolism; it means your body is eating its own proteins. Statements all the way up to Netanyahu that no starvation is happening in Gaza are deeply, profoundly absurd.
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I'd say if you post an accusative claim on a controversial topic as your first post with a new account, it should probably include far more information.
You can clearly see that the BBC edited this headline. I've seen them do this a lot, but whether you believe me or want to investigate further yourself is entirely up to you.
So n=2?
How about examples?
It may be editorialized
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/1956791643413094490
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Then rest of article does not discuss it ... need more analysis it seems....
Patients with conditions like leukemia (and children, and the elderly) are going to suffer first from malnutrition. Even if the hospitals hadn't all been blown up.
Advanced cancer can be secondary to blown up hospitals.