Chart fail: Vox accidentally legalizes cocaine and heroin

They don’t need editorial oversight because they understand the news.

Oops. Vox had to delete this tweet and try again because somebody didn’t notice that cocaine and heroin were illegal.

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/562834496652050432

https://twitter.com/ClosedPress/status/562836836322906112

@voxdotcom Guessing you guys are using 2 & 3.

— Dr Hugo Hackenbush (@MangyLover) February 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/Roger247/status/562837094423601153

Ok, so it turns out they posted a chart of “dangerous” drugs (based on UK data) instead of their chart on “deadly” drugs based on US data. Even so, their argument is still sort of sketchy.

@EsotericCD That's UK data. Read article.

— David Pace (@dnp_david) February 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/bonhomme36/status/562837879551176708

@bonhomme36 Huge number of what?

— David Pace (@dnp_david) February 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/bonhomme36/status/562839226338000896

https://twitter.com/bonhomme36/status/562839578617610240

@bonhomme36 That's hard to measure. Does anyone keep stats on that, and is there a standard for measuring those stats?

— David Pace (@dnp_david) February 4, 2015

That’s why you have to be skeptical of unscientific comparisons.

https://twitter.com/bonhomme36/status/562840104352616450

@bonhomme36 How do you know that?

— David Pace (@dnp_david) February 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/bonhomme36/status/562840785499213825

Who explains the explainers?