Zitat von Number Watch

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

At least the inventors of the second hand smoke scare took the trouble to arrange a sequence of statistical frauds on apparently real data to back up their theory. Now it is not considered necessary. Scientific research has largely been replaced by the sort of vox populi opinion poll that was once confined to the less intellectually demanding end of the women’s magazine market. Third hand smoke now exists as a scientifically proven danger because a “professor” has conducted an opinion poll. No evidence of old fashioned scientific research is considered necessary, not even one of those appalling meta-studies. Most “scientific” stories in the media are now based on results of opinion polls.

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