Cimbuterol case theater?
Is the Taichung City Government’s cimbuterol in pork case an actual case or just theater? The city government needs to give a clear answer.
As a technical engineer, I am often carrying out statistical analysis. When an engineer discovers a statistical outlier in their sampling, but another such example has not been found, how does one determine if that sample data is real?
The physicist Richard Feynman once said about deductions and inferences that “when you don’t have any data, you have to use reason.” If one makes a conclusion when one lacks a complete data set, simply putting all one’s faith in the information in front of oneself is not only unwise, but even foolish.
The last fear-mongering scheme used by opposition parties was the incessant smear campaign against Taiwan’s domestically developed Medigen COVID-19 vaccine. Today’s smear campaign of “poisoned” pork seems to be yet another such attempt to instill fear in people.
Is this being done intentionally to cause social turmoil and sow distrust in the government?
The Taichung City Government did not rely on an executive process to settle the matter, but instead went out of its way to hold a news conference.
“When you see the bird’s shadow, just shoot.”
Their decision to rush into the fray is creating a great amount of social turmoil. Republic of China Swine Association chairman Pan Lien-chou said that the news conference has severely impacted the livelihoods of pig farmers and created social turmoil. The Taichung City Government must set the record straight and dispel any doubt.
Tu Hsin-lung
Taipei
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