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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Hooking up with the data

Posted on 2:49 PM by Unknown
Another moral panic done in by empirical work.

What if all of the moral panics were just ways to sell newspapers (or their more modern equivalents) and to bring money, power, and ill-gotten warm glow to those who exploit them?
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