{"id":370799,"date":"2018-07-25T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/or-how-to-lie-with-statistics\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:17:15","slug":"or-how-to-lie-with-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/or-how-to-lie-with-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Or How to Lie With Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_104016\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104016\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/President_Barack_Obama_sips_filtered_water_from_Flint_following_a_roundtable_on_the_Flint_water_crisis_at_Northwestern_High_School.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/President_Barack_Obama_sips_filtered_water_from_Flint_following_a_roundtable_on_the_Flint_water_crisis_at_Northwestern_High_School.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/President_Barack_Obama_sips_filtered_water_from_Flint_following_a_roundtable_on_the_Flint_water_crisis_at_Northwestern_High_School-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Pete Souza | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mark Twain famously wrote that \u201cthere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\u201d This insight is relevant to examining the apologetics of modern-day academics in the rising neoliberal assault on the public. This subservience to power is evident in efforts to rationalize governmental attacks on the most basic of human needs: access to clean water. In seeking to numb the public to basic facts and reality, the <em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>has published an op-ed analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/22\/opinion\/flint-lead-poisoning-water.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region\">piece<\/a> by Hern\u00e1n G\u00f3mez\u00a0and\u00a0Kim Dietrich: \u201cThe Children of Flint Were Not Poisoned\u201d (7\/22\/2018).<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, many might take the above piece seriously in light of its prestigious source. It was published in the most prominent, influential newspaper in the country \u2013 the national \u201cpaper of record.\u201d Furthermore, the authors are trained experts in their fields, G\u00f3mez an \u201cassociate professor\u201d of emergency medicine\u201d at the University of Michigan, Dietrich a \u201cprofessor of epidemiology and environmental health\u201d at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Furthermore, G\u00f3mez\u2019s research on Flint has gone through the peer review process, as seen in the publication of his article, \u201cBlood Lead Levels of Children in Michigan: 2006-2016\u201d in <em>The Journal of Pediatrics<\/em>. Scholarly peer review is designed to guarantee the highest possible quality of scholarly and medical research, although in this case it appears that the process badly broke&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/25\/erasing-flints-water-crisis-or-how-to-lie-with-statistics\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Pete Souza | CC BY 2.0 Mark Twain famously wrote that \u201cthere are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\u201d This insight is relevant to examining the apologetics of modern-day academics in the rising neoliberal assault on the public. This subservience to power is evident in efforts to rationalize governmental attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}