Citing Sources

Poor old Lord Kadizzle has been in an endless battle with the Hoopleheads over health care. The Hoopleheads have accused Kadizzle of a failure to cite sources. Kadizzle has cited The Harvard Medical Review, The Economist, Newsweek, The OECD, The World Health Organization, The CIA Factbook, Nationmaster, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and a host of other sources, yet the Hooples claim Kadizzle has no facts. On the other hand the Hooples have never cited a singel source. Hooples have a strange view of what constitutes a fact. A Hooplhead believes that facts spring from public opinion or polls. If you hear a lot of people say something it must be true. If something is said a lot on Fox News it must be a fact. If someone you agree with most of the time says something it is a fact. If the people at the coffee shop believe it, it is true. When you argue with a hoople it becomes evident they never had an formal training in logic, research, or science. The whole concept of numbers and statistics baffles them. Percentages make their heads spin.