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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (6806)	5/21/2009 2:13:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 42652

"From right wingers or libertarians" doesn't equal biased, unless you call comments from anyone with an opinion (and thus essentially anyone) to be biased. Even when there is bias 1 - The other side, including WHO itself, is biased. and 2 - An argument isn't true or false based on who makes it. If the source you believe is biased doesn't make any real arguments but just says "that study is crap", you could reasonably completely discount the comment. If they claim specific facts, with no support of those facts, and you think they are not only biased but very dishonest, then you might discount the facts. (But the facts where supported, and if your going to claim they are too dishonest to pay attention to the burden of proof should be on you). But the problems where mainly with logic and methodology. Such things stand by themselves. The ideology or political leaning of the person questioning the logic or methodology is pretty much meaningless. Logic, and requirements of good methodology are objective, and independent of the person presenting them. To reject them based on the person making them is pure ad-hominem.

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