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Exaggerations Debunked: NSA Actually Collects 20% or Less of US Call Data

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Killgore Trout2/07/2014 1:38:56 pm PST

re: #203 freetoken

Though a couple of weeks old, this is rumbling through the net:

Rolling Back Prices and Raising Crime Rates? The Walmart Effect on Crime in the United States

Must be the Koch bainwave transmiters. Seriously, that paper just reeks of bad science. Some people write academic papers with subsequent press coverage in mind. “New statistical study reveals liberals more likely to have had potty training difficulty as babies!” is guaranteed to be picked up by partisan media. This stuff almost never pans out, it’s nonsense.