This is a review for a new book called Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. While it's a book review, the article does raise some interesting questions about how statistics and numbers can (and are often) manipulated in the media and other sources that we trust.
The author reminds us that Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy stated he had a list of 205 (?) suspected communists because he knew how "numbers have power."
Read the article here!
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