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What Conspiracy?

Posted on June 20, 2008

All models are wrong; some are useful. -George P. Box I enjoy intelligent criticism. It forces you to tighten up your analysis, more aggressively dig up facts, communicate your position more effectively. Good criticism should be challenging, eloquent, and raise the argument bar -- making you sharpen your rhetorical pencil.Then, we have the criticism that can be most charitably described as wanting. These come in a variety of forms, ranging from the simple ad hominem attack to the complex Straw Man arguments, to the classic taking quotes out of context. There are a many other weak, disrepu...

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