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Conspiracy Theories

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On October 17, 2006
Very nice post from Ezra Klein:More pernicious, I'm starting to think, is anti-paranoid punditry in American politics, in which scary-but-plausible theories are dismissed simply by calling them conspiratorial. Because we all know the ancient Latin logical fallacy reductio ad conspiratorium that eliminates theories assuming collusion...

Assrocket

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On October 16, 2006

So saith Assrocket:In fact, as we have often noted, if you listened to any of the speeches President Bush gave on Iraq in 2003 or read the Congressional authorization on.

I’ve changed my mind

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On October 16, 2006
After further reflection on the uses and mis-uses of statistics, I have concluded -- along with Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the Milton Friedman Appreciation Society and Supper Club, and Instahack -- that something is seriously wrong when major publications print bogus, partisan data from studies whose methodology...

Herald-Leader

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On October 16, 2006

Via TAPPED, the Lexington Herald-Leader appears to be returning a grant designed to support investigation of Senator Mitch McConnell after McConnell's office called the paper and accused the center giving.

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