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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Read this book!
Message-ID: <660@loral.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 18:24:45 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.660
Posted: Sun Nov 18 18:24:45 1984
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References: <3077@alice.UUCP> <525@tty3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <525@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes:
>Before you read the book Andy suggests,
>you should read "How To Lie With Statistics."
>From Andy's summary of "Burning Money", it sounds like a useful primer.

	I may be wrong, but this looks to me like a perfect example of
a knee-jerk response in defense of a locked-up position.  If Andy's summary
of this or some other book had been aligned with your political
philosophies, I doubt very much that you'd suggest the association you do
above.

	My suggestion is to read the book first, and if you disagree
with its findings, refute them.  It casts a very poor light on your
other postings, past and future, to display such a willingness to reject
summarily this book's findings without doing your homework first.

	(Incidentally, at this moment, I'm about halfway through
"Burning Money".  I concur with Andy's assessment.)

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Ray Simard
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