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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Statistics
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1993Jan14.101741.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan14.203524.13491@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <nyikos.727476745@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan20.171409.27837@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:37:55 GMT
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- In <1993Jan20.171409.27837@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
-
- >In article <nyikos.727476745@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan14.203524.13491@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- >>
- >>>mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >>>>mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran) writes:
- >>>>>mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
- >>
- >>>> Abortion trauma is not a myth, but a proven medical fact. It doesn't happen
- >>>> to all women who undergo abortions. I care about those women who suffer
- >>>> through it, you don't.
- [...]
- >>>If you have evidence showing that the incidence of post-abortion trauma is
- >>>higher than that of post-partum depression, please post it.
- >>
- >>What I am aware of is a pair of very unusual statements:
- >>
- >> Statement 1: "No less than 90 percent of aborted women
- >> experience moderate to severe emotional and psychiatric
- >> stress following an abortion. Up to 10 percent require
- >> psychiatric hospitalization or other professional
- >> treatment."
- >>
- >> Statement 2: The same figures in re postpartum depression.
- >>
- >>The source for the first is _Aborted Women, Silent No More_, pp. xxiv-
- >>xxv.
- >>
- >Now try to find an unbiased source which bases it's conclusions on a
- >resonably wide sampling PHoney.
-
- Such sources do not exist. Stop trying to send me on wild goose chases.
-
- >>The source for the second is a post either last July or last August
- >>by Linda Birmingham.
- >>
- >>I have not been able to find the copy I made of this post, or rather
- >>of my follow-up in which I said, "Where do you get your statistics,
- >>Ms. Birmingham?"
- >>
- >I've already posted the stats and the source for them PHoney.
-
- Do they agree with Linda's? I missed them, y'see, because even I
- don't have the stamina to plow through 180 articles by you.
-
- >>What Ms. Birmingham may have neglected to note, IF she indeed plagiarized
- >>Reardon's book, is that Reardon speaks of "aborted women," i.e. the members
- >>of WEBA, who are hardly representative of the women who have had abortions.
- >>
- >So her eyou admit that your quotation above about post abortion trauma
- >is so much bunk. Thanks for wasting our time. Why bother posting it
- >when even you admit it's worthless? What? Oh, I see. You can't *find*
- >any valid evidence, so you post crap instead. Makes Nyikossense...
-
- My main point was that what Linda Birmingham posted was bunk, and claimed
- to be an accurate reflection of women, unlike Reardon's material, which
- he admits is from a biased sample, but as they say in the Army, "We go
- with what we got."
-
- You are making this too easy for me, Cochran. A more experienced
- pro-choice Establishment member, like Humphrey or Hekhuis, would have
- deleted everything I said about Linda Birmingham, making me work hard
- to restore it. Looks like you are still not ready for the big leagues.
-
- >>To use such obviously unreliable material as a basis for something made up
- >>out of whole cloth in re postpartum depression is indicative of something,
- >>but I'd rather not say what it is.
- >>
- >I'll say it. It's indicative of your total and complete lack of any
- >human intelligence PHoney. Why *do* you use such obviously unreliable
- >material?
-
- You made it so easy, I don't even need to add anything, except that
- if past behavior is any indication, Linda Birmingham will refuse to
- follow up to any post which mentions her wild and wooly claims of last
- summer, while flaming people like Bill Overpeck in long, detailed posts,
- and calling him a coward for not answering *all* her questions.
-
- BTW I wonder what good ol' Bill is doing. I'll send him a copy of this
- post. Unlike you, Marcus, he does not pretend that they are personal
- e-mail messages, nor threaten to impose this illusion on my postmaster.
-
- >>>Please define convenience.
- >>
- >>How about doing the same, since you ask such loaded questions? My
- >>definition: something not more than three times as bad as having an
- >>abortion and putting up with PMS and menstrual cramps, bleeding, etc.
- >>
- >>I wonder why there is all this hullabaloo about the mother's tissues,
- >>organs, blood, etc. in regard to pregnancy and not in regard to menstrual
- >>blood, etc. Aristotle even believed that the unborn child was built up
- >>from the menstrual blood of the mother, congealed by the sperm of the
- >>father.
- >>
- >So because Aristotle was incorrect, you feel jusitifed in being an
- >idiot? Doesn't work that way PHoney...
-
- Let me spell things out a little more here.
-
- Aristotle, most ancients, and many biologists up to the 17th century,
- believed the myth because they thought the volume of menstrual flow
- (including blood, but I don't think it was restricted to that)
- over 9 months was adequate to produce a baby. I wonder, BTW, what
- the true story is on this: has anyone compared volumes or weights?
-
- One can see allusions to this theory in the biblical book of Job, in the
- Apocryphal book of Wisdom, and even in Sterne's _Tristam Shanty_, showing
- the belief persisted in the common folklore even after being discredited
- scientifically.
-
- Superficial biology texts do not mention this theory, but do mention the
- rival homunculus theory of the middle ages, which never really supplanted
- it.
-
- Anyway, my point is that there is a lot of menstrual flow, and, coupled
- with menstrual cramps, can sometimes be worse than pregnancy. I have
- a sister who was plagued with extremely severe cramps lasting longer
- than a week at a time, until she had her first child.
-
- >>>>> Your attempt to compare abortion to the holocaust is cheap
- >>>>> emotionalism, and smacks of anti-semitism to many of those who have
- >>>>> personal conenctions to that time period.
- >>
- >>And not to many others, like Bernard Nathanson. I have made a post
- >>earlier on why he became a pro-lifer, that deals with this matter.
- >>
- >Again you cite what can hardly be considered an unbiased source. Have
- >you ever tried to find one?
-
- He was as unbiased as you can get in _Aborting America_. He is also
- Jewish.
-
- >>I have seen few people as shallow in their thinking as Chris Lyman. Back
- >>in November I posted, "Chris Lyman's Massive Denial, Part 1" but I fear
- >>that never made your boards, because I have never seen a follow-up.
- >>
- >How lucky we are! We've been spared another 1000 line bandwidth
- >wasting PHoney article in which he shows that his only claim to
- >credibility is his ability to rely on Truth by Blatant Assertion,
- >without any support whatsoever from facts. And often without any
- >connection with the Real World (tm).
-
- You speak of you know not what. The bulk of that post, less than 200
- lines long, was quoting from Jerome Lejeune, the discoverer of the
- genetic basis for Down's Syndrome. Ever hear of him?
-
- TEST OF MARK COCHRAN SOFTWARE. PLEASE IGNORE._____________________
-
- No, but I can hardly be expected to know the name of every
- geneticist.
-
- End of test___________________________________________________________
- >Still working on how attribution lines work aren't you PHoney?
- >Twit.
-
- Still trying to fathom the concept, "begging the question"?
-
- Peter Nyikos
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