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</div This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D6208C.A4E48BC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Some of the =E2=80=9Csocial scientists=E2=80=9D CBC seems inclined to = interview are certainly given to amazing leaps of logic, such that = =E2=80=9Cscientist=E2=80=9D shouldn=E2=80=99t be part of their titles. = The hypotheses that said =E2=80=9Csome=E2=80=9D advance are plausible = and the questions they raise are important, but their tendencies to = assert their hypotheses as certitude rub me the wrong way. =20 =20 But I digress =E2=80=A6 J =20 From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca = [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of David Webster Sent: May 2, 2020 1:43 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Covid-19 data - Tracking covid-19 excess deaths = across countries | Graphic detail | The Economist =20 Thanks Patrick, I especially enjoyed "This sales technique, reminiscent of = pre-Reformation Catholicism, is not surprising in a publication named = after the social science most given to wild guesses and imaginary facts = presented in the guise of inevitability and exactitude. " It reminded me of the 60's saying "If all economists were laid end = to end they would all point in different directions." Which in turn led = to "If all the girls from Redacted College were laid end to end I = wouldn't be surprised". Dave W. Kentville On 5/2/2020 12:29 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist=20 =20 Look under =E2=80=9Ceditorial anonymity=E2=80=9D and you will see why = they have always taken the approach that they do. =20 Pat Sent from my iPad On May 2, 2020, at 12:23 PM, David Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. Hi Mary &All, Thanks for posting this. Over time I have received several complementary issues of The Economist but never subscribed because all of the articles were anonymous. Has this changed ? Dave, Kentville On 5/2/2020 10:47 AM, Mary Macaulay wrote: This article may be approaching the scientific data people are looking = for. 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