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8. To paraphrase one social observer...

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 08:56 AM

Dec 2013

We live in a time when feelings and Comfort Zones™ are more important than facts. And science sucks, too.

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Well, we have to give "both sides" of the story, you see, and . . . hatrack Dec 2013 #4

Oh, yes, the Right & the Left (assuming the latter exists). Eleanors38 Dec 2013 #7

"wider scientific illiteracy??" Blue_Tires Dec 2013 #5

I'm fairly certain journalism schools don't teach statistics. SheilaT Dec 2013 #6

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