what I am astating is that articles in a peer reviewed journal has much more weight than an ideologically based report by a thinktank that gets most of its money from spreaking hysertia.
On Monday, February 27, 2012, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "NO I went to their website and then went to a couple of charity watchdog > sites, such as ttp://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cf > ?bay=search.summary&orgid=10196< > http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10196> > and looked them up. I also did the same for the Harvard School For Public > Health project I cited. That one receives money from the Joyce > Foundation and the CDC. Last I checked the CDC is not what you'd call a > liberal organization, except in the minds of some extremist conservatives." > > > Kudos Larry for doing follow up. A good idea for everyone. > > Let me bring up a fallacy that you are perpetrating. You are assuming that > an organization with supposedly conservative leanings is automatically > wrong. > > With the innocuous google search I posted "gun control crime rates", you > can find more material to read if you are interested. > > > In the end, the data is the data. Violent crimes are more likely to happen > in places with stricter gun control. Take it however you want. > > > "Second, I really do not think that a screed published as an op ed piece in > a student publication has the same weight as multiple studies in peer > reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine or Public > Health. If you think that it does then you're woefully ignorant of how this > process works for real science, not the pseudo science promoted by the > right wing." > > As I have stated before, you are entitled to and encouraged to think what > you want. (BTW, did you complain when the UN based some of its climate > policy on the the unproven thesis of a graduate student?) > > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347518 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
