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The craft of economic storytelling
The New Bazaar
How to Lies With Statistics
The author of how to lie with statistics became an expert witness for the tobacco industry. He was helping them sow a lot of doubt about some very well arrived at statistics that link cigarette smoking to cancer and other bad things. It's very sad, and it fits very naturally with the strategy that the tobacco industry were using. Don't listen to experts, don't listen to the scientist. Just keep smoking.
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