No, Really, Data *Is* The Plural of Anecdote!
By Shorter “Dr. Sanity” (sic): “Whenever you discuss socialized medicine, make sure you only talk about Britain and Canada, with a dirt-poor non-democracy thrown in for a particularly silly comparison. Make sure to ignore the huge differences in funding and systematic comparisons with the American system as opposed to random anecdotes. You can even simply flagrantly lie and call them ” the cream of the crop”–this may cause your particularly dim-witted readers to forget that France, which gets far better and fairer results than the American system for considerably less money, even exists. You’re a reactionary blogger, after all–none of your readers cares that you don’t have the foggiest idea what you’re talking about.”
UPDATE: Barbara has more.