From: kcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran)
Subject: Truth By Blatant Assertion, Take I. (Was: 3 doctors doing the tango)
Summary: A perfect example of how *NOT* to post... 
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 16:21:22 GMT

In article <nyikos.715732551@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>In <1992Sep05.072518.28382@watson.ibm.com> Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
>>In  <nyikos.715648972@milo.math.scarolina.edu>  nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>>> In <24537@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense) writes:
>>>
>>> >Well, if honest reporting, like Koop, who is pro-life btw, makes you
>>> >think it is all biased because it doesn't show what you want it to show,
>>> >too bad.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I've been on talk.abortion only two months and this is the
>>> first mention I've seen of Koop.
>
>>Have you ever heard of the Universal Almanac?  The Federal Centers for
>>Disease Control?  Any of the *other* sources that have been quoted?

Don't be so subtle.  Think hard, Peter.  President Reagan?  Remember him?
Now, think "Surgeon General Of The United States"?  Ever hear of him?  That's
who Koop was at the time he turned in his report.

>
>Sorry, missed them all. On which thread should I have looked?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  What *WORLD* did you grow up on, Peter?

>
>>Didn't you just post that you believe that the fact that a single lawyer
>>reports seeing more rape cases than incest gave you reason to believe
>>that doctors who perform abortions are learning of incest and failing
>>to report it?  
>
>This lawyer has been around for a long time, and knows what is going
>on even if he "sees" little of it.  

A blatant attempt to assert that "with age comes wisdom".  Sorry, Peter.
Lawyers deal with FACTS, and PROOF, not SPECULATION.

>
>Also, I have not heard of a single abortionist turning in someone
>for incest.  It takes a while to find out whether any such cases
>have actually occurred, though.  Stay tuned.

You know, Peter, I seriously doubt that any man is going to bring his 13 year
old daughter into an abortion clinic, and tell them that she needs an abortion
because he's raping her.  Just doesn't quite seem logica, you know?

>
>>Just what the hell do you consider to be "founded"???
>
>We mathematicians frequently publish what we call "preliminary
>reports," with articles giving the full details to come later.

That's nice.  This isn't a mathematics forum.  What's your point?

>You wanted to know whether your guess that abortionists reported
>incest 100% of the time was correct.  (Would you say that was
>"founded"??) I did not want to leave you completely in the dark.

No, you just wanted to engage in some more TbBA and scream some more about
how the EvilAbortionistsAreTryingToRuinTheAmericanWayOfLife.  Whoop-di-doo...

>I see you would have preferred to go on believing in that 100% figure.

Peter, if any woman came into an abortion clinic, said she needed an abortion
because of incest, I'm sure that the clinic would report it to the police.

>Go ahead and believe it if it makes you happy, but you may be
>rudely surprised later.

Translation:  I don't have any evidence for this one either, but I'm going to
attempt to put up a brave face, and furiously run away when you aren't looking.
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