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Seife's “Proofiness" Reveals the Untruths in Numbers and How They Threaten Democracy

Jul 26, 2010
In Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, Charles Seife shows how numbers can be a powerful rhetorical weapon, but warns that “in skillful hands, phony data, bogus statistics, and bad mathematics can make the most fanciful idea, the most outrageous falsehood seem true.”
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