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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Chris Lyman's failed reading comprehension (Was: Statistics)
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- References: <1993Jan14.101741.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan14.203524.13491@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <nyikos.727476745@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1993Jan20.185543.24777@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:07:42 GMT
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- In <1993Jan20.185543.24777@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
-
- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >>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.
-
- >> I readily believe this assessment of Cochran.
-
- >Considering that you don't know what Mark does for a living,
-
- What has that got to do with the price of eggs? He is awfully tight-lipped
- about it.
-
- > this is a,
- >ahem, _brash_ accusation. Even wild and illogical. See below.
-
- I looked, and could not find anything relevant by Cochran. I did see
- a lot of stuff by you where you covered most of the same ground he did.
-
- I dealt with some of the stuff I deleted below in a follow-up to his kissing
- cousin of this post.
-
- >>> 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.
-
- [Cochran-style non sequitur deleted]
-
- >> The source for the second is a post either last July or last August
- >> by Linda Birmingham.
-
- >As I've mentioned before, post-partum depression can entail anything from
- >a mild case of the 'blues' to a full-blown psychosis.
-
- According to Ms. Birmingham, less than 10% of all births result in a mild
- case of the blues, shared with those with even less in the way of
- unpleasant sequelae. Care to dispute her claim?
-
- [Cochran-style demand deleted]
-
- >I believe some one out there has posted evidence from a recent article in
- >the Journal of the American Medical Association that indicates that most
- >women feel just fine after an abortion.
-
- Just fine? After having a curette shoved up their cervix and deep into
- the womb? Tell me another one, Chris.
-
-
- >Pot, kettle, black, Perfesser. I didn't read all of your 75 freaking
- >articles, but of the ones I did read, most of the content dealt with
- >your inability to understand and get along with other t.a participants.
-
- I understand them all too well. Hence their inability to get along
- with me.
-
- >Btw, your apology to Ms. Regard is long overdue.
-
- I don't apologize for things I don't do.
-
- >> 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.
-
- >Wait a minute. If you cite Reardon's book, that's research; if Ms.
- >Birmingham cites it, it's plagiarism??? Why? Because she's pro-choice?
- >Or she's Canadian? What gives?
-
- Ms. Birmingham did not cite Reardon's book. She gave the statistics
- as though they were common knowledge. No documentation. In fact, no
- indication where she "learned" about those statistics.
-
- Go back and read what I wrote above. Then read the thread title.
- Then read the following thing you wrote, and, if you forgot the
- thread title, go back and read it again.
-
- >Btw, I've never known Ms. Birmingham to use others' material without giving
- >credit. Maybe you should nip this in the bud (and save bandwidth :-) )
- >by retracting your speculation now.
-
- >> 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.
-
- >Heh.
-
- Why is Chris Lyman laughing?
-
- >It's reliable enough when it suits your purposes, eh?
-
- Why, he just came up with a bit of baseless speculation, the question
- you see above. No, baseless speculation is too kind a word.
-
- Would "character assassination" be closer to the mark?
-
- TEST OF CHRIS LYMAN SOFTWARE. PLEASE IGNORE._________________________
-
- >Would "character assassination" be closer to the mark?
-
- Heh. "Character suicide" would be more like it.
-
- END OF TEST._______________________________________________________
-
- >>> Is aborting a pregnancy because one does not have the resources to care
- >>> for another child a matter of convenience?
-
- >> Yes, in the USA, where there is a serious shortage of infants (as opposed
- >> to older kids who have been shuttled in and out of foster care) up for
- >> adoption.
-
- [claim not mentioning adoption deleted]
-
- >2. It has been repeatedly shown that the people on waiting lists to adopt
- > are looking for healthy, white babies.
-
- This is an instance of what I call "the Linda Birmingham Phantom
- Universal". "the people," without qualifying aduectives.
-
- > There are plenty of babies of
- > color and/or with disabilities waiting to be adopted.
-
- Well, in Minnesota, I am told, the "people of color" were successful in
- making it illegal for whites to adopt babies of color. Can you either
- confirm or deny this? and back up the confirmation or denial with
- documentation?
-
- [Sorry, that first question was rhetorical. Please concentrate most
- of your widdle bwain on the second, Chwis.]
-
- >>> Is aborting a pregnancy because the conception was the product of rape
- >>> a matter of convenience?
-
- >> No.
-
- >>> 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.
-
- >Tut, tut, Petey, it's pro-lifers like Mr. McMillan who say over and over
- >that most abortions are for 'convenience.' If I were to attempt to define
- >what 'convenience' meant in the context of this discussion, pro-lifers
- >like Mr. McMillan would rightly accuse me of setting up a strawman.
-
- I answered the question, as you can see. Were I of the same mentality
- as Adrienne Regard, I would say you lack the *balls* to answer it
- yourself.
-
- Since I am not of the same mentality, I respectfully ask you to please
- answer it.
-
-
- >> 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.
-
- >Do us all a favor, Petey. Find the passage in Aborting America where Dr.
- >Nathanson appeals to all abortion debate participants _not_ to water down
- >the memory of the Holocaust and post it. I posted it once and had it
- >archived, but it was lost in the shuffle when we recovered from a crash.
-
- Sorry, Chris. I did my share by posting the incident which changed
- Nathanson's mind about the matter. The rest is up to you.
-
- >>>> You are just throwing around wild, illogical accusations.
-
- >> That I readily believe, since I have seen Chris do a great deal of that.
-
- >Coming from you, that's a compliment.
-
- Have you eaten any crow, or humble pie, ever? Someone once told me
- it was nourishing. If you could post just one example, it would do
- wonders for your credibility where I am concerned.
-
- Peter Nyikos
-
-