By: How Fake Statistics Become “True”: A Case Study From The Newtown Massacre Ethics Train Wreck | Ethics Alarms

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:25:33 +0000

[...] But that number is not “85 percent of the children in the world that are killed with guns and killed in the United States,” not even close. A liberal blogger and gun control advocate who is also a scientist was asannoyed by the fake statistic as I was, and did some digging and calculating, expanding beyond the 22 countries in the Richardson and Hemenway study: [...]

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By: How Fake Statistics Become “True”: A Case Study From The Newtown Massacre Ethics Train Wreck | Ethics Alarms