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A lobby group seeking to deny the statistical evidence will always be able to point to some aspect of the current science that is not settled, note that the matter is terribly complicated, and call for more research.

Sometimes an advanced degree in statistics would’ve been useful, but you never need it to ask the right questions.

Sometimes the problem is not that we are too eager to believe something, but that we find reasons not to believe anything.

Doubt is easy to sell because it is part of the process of scientific exploration and debate.

Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an x-ray for a radiologist. If we are willing to let them, Good statistics help us see things about the world around us and about ourselves, both large and small that we would not be able to see in any other way.