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- From: revpk@cellar.org (Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,soc.culture.usa,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Allan Bloom, Micheal Medved and Jack Chick
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:07:47 GMT
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- gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
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- > In article <23JAN199311150484@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
- > lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
- >
- > >Not quite. The argument (which Siano makes in another article which
- > >goes into some detail on Medved's book) is more like "Michael Medved
- > >misuses statistics to argue for a number of mutually inconsistent
- > >propositions, so he is a wacko like unto Jack Chick."
- >
- > I found Medved's book annoying in some ways. But I would be
- > interested to hear how any reasonably sane person would argue it is
- > like a Jack Chick comic book. As to misusing statistics, statistics
- > are misused in 94.8 % of all cases where they are used at all.
- >
- > --
- > Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- > gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
-
- Uh, since we're talking about an article I'd written, could someone
- do me a favor and Email me some of the previous messages on this topic? I
- don't know what's wrong with my node's Usenet feed, but I've noticed that a
- lot of topics crop up on newsgroups whose initial messages I've somehow
- missed.
-
- Actually, the original article (of which the _Humanist_ article is a
- small part) argues that Medved's book is basically incoherent from a logical
- and factual point of view. (And in an earlier draft, I think I did compare
- Medved to Jack Chick in the luridness of his descriptions of movies. Since a
- lot of people didn't know who Jack Chick was, I took the reference out-- it
- was just too arcane.)
-
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