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ZachPruckowski on June 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable?

You're assuming the authors of Freakonomics themselves don't either (a) have an agenda, or (b) just want to be as loud and shocking as they can.

gjm11 on June 17, 2010 [–]

Only in the same sense as a mathematician setting out to do a proof by reductio ad absurdum is "assuming" that sqrt(2) is rational or whatever.

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