Sunday, August 16, 2009

A Matter Of Fact

An interesting, heated debate on domestic violence between Nancy K.D. Lemon (who literally wrote the book on the subject) and Christina Hoff Sommers (who says the book is nonsense).

Here's what fascinates me about such dust-ups. It's often said you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. I suppose not. Except in most intellectual debates, it sure seems like each side does have its own set of facts. And it's not as if the back and forth of debate changes them much.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't believe Romulus was a real Roman leader. At least that can be determined.

10:06 AM, August 16, 2009  
Blogger QueensGuy said...

Yeah, Ms. Lemon lost a lot of points with me right off the bat there with the Romulus line. Then when she obviously conflated two sets of numbers -- emergency room visits and emergency room visits for violent injuries -- she totally lost me.

2:11 PM, August 17, 2009  

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