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To: epicure who wrote (90875)12/8/2004 11:38:27 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
My logic is consistent with what Plotz himself said in the article you posted:

"This does not prove, however, that Iraq and al-Qaida never cooperated. The polls, in fact, may reflect a kind of commonsense logic: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida share a pathological hatred of the United States, so it’s entirely possible that they collaborated, even if we don’t know how."

Some people want to convert the absence of evidence of Iraqi collaboration into proof that we know that they never collaborated. As Plotz pointed out that is not correct.

bsence of evidence is absence of evidence Correct, but it's not evidence of absence.

Thanks for posting that article. I recently read the Posner book Plotz mentioned in the article and found it quite informative.
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