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Friday, April 19, 2013

Mr. Sherlock Holmes on Pundits and Boston


Not the video.  The video is just for fun.

But these are spot on:
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."
--  "A Study in Scarlet"

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

--  "A Scandal in Bohemia"

3 comments:

  1. Not here. Until we understand as a society that the innocents killed in our name "over there" are just as important as these and all the others recently here it will not get better.

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  2. There's a non-barking dog here...

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  3. The hive mind at work… time to take a drive…

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