"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point. Wikipedia Reference to Mark Twain's dubious attribution of this to Benjamin Disraeli.

I read the research mentioned and I would cite the following:
-The sample size in this study allows the authors to come to the conclusion they want to come to in the first place
-Oregon Live has an article on the worst Oregon wildfires, http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/the_worst_wildfires_in_oregon.html
-Of these, half are brush fires
-The others are forest fires. All were in old growth or reburns of previous fires that did not get salvaged
-The Elliot Forest, became state ownership after the original old growth was burnt around 1880.
-The B&B Complex, Whitewater Fire, Eagle Creek, Strawberry Wilderness, all unmanaged lands

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