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Ed West–The BBC puts out two spurious reports about religion dying out, just before the Census

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Kendall Harmon

Now that’s funny. Just as we’re all about to fill in a Census, the most controversial issue of which is the question of religion, the BBC carries two highly spurious stories about the decline of faith…

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One comment on “Ed West–The BBC puts out two spurious reports about religion dying out, just before the Census”

  1. Hursley says:
    March 25, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    Ah, yes, the “if-present-trends-continue” argument upon which the “extinction study” is so solidly based… in statistics such a conclusion is often regarded much as Samuel Johnson’s comment about patriotism being the “last refuge of a scoundrel.”