Hello Into the Night,
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Into the Night
No information was used. It was created out of thick air.
And that is where your argument falls apart.
Information was definitely used.
They took the death rate prior to the storm and compared it to the death rate after the storm.
Either the storm is responsible for the additional deaths or something else is.
Social science, (in the broadest sense of the term science,) looks at the knowledge of social phenomena.
This estimate was performed as a part of social science.
Every individual is free to reject this estimate if they please, but it is accepted by our government and most of society as the most accurate estimate possible, and in all reality, probably very accurate.
Unless an explanation which accounts for all the additional deaths is presented, I choose, just like most of the nation, to accept this estimate.
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