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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

This is an excellent example of strawman and DT.  By reframing you *attempt*
to place the other party in the position of having to defend their
statements.

The statement stands as it references your reply to the post I responded to.

Me thinks per chance you don't give enough credit to those reading this list
if you think they can't follow your tangled weaving in an attempt to defend
your own inaccuracies and obsessions by trying to place those who correct
you in a bad light.

And, in one way I do agree with you, you usually do much better than this.

Again, infant mortality rates are calculated on 1 month to 1 year.  How
exactly/precisesly does your ancedotal tales of birth deaths have any
substance in a discussion whose parameters start 30 days after your tales?

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: clanSkeen <sgian AT planetc.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Our shameful infant mortality rate
>
> Lynda, I have a hard time believing that you operate on this intellectual
> level.  Of the people I know personally, 'all' applies.  It's just the way
> it worked out.  I included that to show that I had a basis for bringing up
> the connection between obesity and infant mortality.   But that is an
> entirely different thing from attempting to counter my posit by saying
that
> I hold that any and all down to the last instance of infant mortality is
> directly due to obesity.  If I hadn't read a lot of your stuff on this
list
> and others, I might write you off as just a few sandwiches short of a
picnic
> in your mental acumen when you address a discussion thus:  set up a straw
> man by restating my observations in ridiculous terms - that is, I am
saying
> that ALL infant deaths are due to obesity, and then shooting down that
straw
> man and thinking you have somehow countered the point.   You usually do
> better than that.   In fact *I* could do better than that against my own
> position.
>
> James
>
>
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