PatsWickedPissah

Here's a piece on why you should be wary of scientists who claim a causual relationship simply because of statistical anaylsis.

http://www.economist.com/science/dis...ory_id=8733754

This should be required reading in any science cirriculum

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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck." RAH