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- From: dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly)
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- Subject: Faulty Logic (was Re: Can anyone tell me about this TV show?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.204308.1274@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:43:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.024503.16801@spdcc.com> rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue) writes:
- >mudge@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (MUDGE BRIAN WAYNE) writes:
- >
- >> THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (no, i'm not shouting, that's the way they
- >>print it) Nov-13, 1992. I don't remember which section, but you can
- >>bet it wasn't "finance".
- >> Apparently, some researchers think that e-mag waves do something funny
- >>to the pineal gland, causing a cancer link.
- >> Unfortunately, the study was not a causality one. That is, they first
- >>started with X number of cancer patients, and then found out how many
- >>of them used electric razors. Naturally, the electric razor use could
- >>be merely coincidental.
- >
- > Yup - it's psuedo-science. There's lots of it going around
- >these days.
- >
- > I leave it up to the reader to look for it - I won't be baited
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >into giving a list ;-)
- >
- > I'll bet most of those people surveyed also used toilet paper...
- >which of course then makes it carcinogenic... (if that sounds ridiculous
- >you should read some of the REAL reports!)
-
- Well, here's a good example I read once in a book about logic:
-
- Someone observes that more traffic accidents occur on days when
- people walk around with open umbrellas. Conclusion: umbrellas
- cause car accidents.
-
- Of course, this ignores the effect of rain on both accidents
- and on umbrella use.
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