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- From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: "only 3 doctors...perform third trimester abortions"
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.190206.36528@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:02:06 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.155523.13978@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep01.044638.5174@watson.ibm.com>
- > margoli@watson.IBM.com writes:
- >
- > >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- > >> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
- >
- > >>> If they said that there were only X number of doctors who specialized
- > >>> in heart transplants, I wouldn't assume that there were a number of
- > >>> additional doctors who specialized in, say, podiatry, but performed an
- > >>> occasional heart transplant on the side.
- >
- > >> What does this have to do with the subject?
- >
- > > They said that there were only three doctors who specialize in third-
- > > trimester abortions. You assumed that there were others who performed
- > > them as well. I gave an example to show that this assumption does not
- > > necessarily follow.
- >
- > But the subject is whether or not 60 Minutes supports your claims.
- > You said that you were unwilling to admit that 60 Minutes does not
- > support your claims. Are you claiming that 60 Minutes does support
- > your claims, YES or NO?
-
- I believe they do. I agree that it's a bit ambiguous, but I consider it
- independant corroboration of facts that I got from the net long ago. I
- can see where you might disagree since you haven't seen other sources.
- You had indicated that you might write 60 Minutes and ask them about
- their sources; you could ask them to clarify this at the same time.
-
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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