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Mark Twain often repeated a phrase that virtually everybody knows today - "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics". In the age of epidemiology, Big Data, and the rule of chance/entropy, the 3 components of that phrase have largely merged and now most statistical claims can be safely assumed...
Don't think this will come as a surprise to the people reading this forum. My only questions is this. If the "War on Drugs" was a lie and simply a political tool for Nixon to destabilize the "enemies of the state", then what are the "War on Cancer" or "War on Dementia" waged by the same...