The r/lucyletby sub have lost all critical thinking ability, self-filtered for those who can never convinced otherwise about Letby's guilt, and resorted to calling everyone else a conspiracy theorist, all while insulating themselves with an embargo law that doesn't apply to reddit. It's mind-numbing.
It's not as damming as you make it out to be. People "confess" to crimes they didn't commit all the time[1]. Also, taking other things she wrote into context, eg.
>I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them
it's unclear whether she wrote “I’m evil, I did this” because she murdered the babies, or she felt responsible for their deaths despite not having murdered them. The latter isn't as far fetched as you might think. For instance when people choose to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train, conductors sometimes feel like they were responsible, even if there was nothing they can do (due to the stopping distances of the trains)[2]. And this is for a train, where it's possible to rigorously prove whether the conductor were responsible or not. Imagine what it must be like for a nurse in a hectic emergency unit, with far more variables and far less certainty.
For every death she was indicted for, yes; for every death on the unit, no.
"[Schafer] thought that [the diagram] should have spanned a longer period of time and included all the deaths on the unit, not just the ones in the indictment."
I confess. I stole the Eiffel Tower. I'm a thief and a crook. Take me away and lock me up.
Confessing to something is evidence of guilt if a crime has occurred. It's not evidence that a crime has occurred.
Being present for every death is only evidence of guilt if those deaths were murders. It's not evidence that those deaths were murders.
Otherwise you could correlate the staff rosters with death certificates at every hospital or nursing home and find a large number of "serial killers". Especially if you get to cherry pick which deaths are suspicious.
You are committing the exact same fallacies as the r/lucyletby sub. She was present for every death that she was indicted for. Each of you and I were present for every death that we were indicted for too!
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1crg7u0/a_british...
https://www.reddit.com/r/lucyletby/comments/1crie1n/interest...
The r/lucyletby sub have lost all critical thinking ability, self-filtered for those who can never convinced otherwise about Letby's guilt, and resorted to calling everyone else a conspiracy theorist, all while insulating themselves with an embargo law that doesn't apply to reddit. It's mind-numbing.