Some doctors have insufficient numeracy skills to comprehend statistical variances; e.g. the just struck-off Professor Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence wrongly convicted several innocent mothers of killing their babies because of an illness he was championing "Munchhausen by Proxy", and he admitted that he had "a weak grasp of statistics", yet he quoted figures like "a million to one" and "winning the lottery".

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He was forbidden from practicing Law?

 

Don't you mean he was struck off? Some language nazi you are! "

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You rascal! Going about and changing posts. Shame on you! "

Ah yes clearly.

 

Still, I'm not sure what "BBS" he's referring to.

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er apologies and a BBS is the "community" system that they have at readers Digest. It's set up with a bulliten board system rather than a more complex board like this.

People who can't discern reality from make believe deserve to get shot in the head.

I thnk that with the recent spat of insight, we had best retire this gem ...