1.0 link 23029 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/debunking-the-debunking-t_b_23029.html I was in my office at UCLA this afternoon, reading the latest press-release-dressed-up-as-a-research-report from the Sentencing Project, in which Ryan S. King "proves" that methamphetamine isn't really much of a problem. While I was wondering how long it would take Jack Shafer of Slate to jump on it, and betting myself 10-to-1 against Shafer, or any other reporter except Steve Suo, noticing how spectacularly the report abused the data -- its primary data source, the National Survey on...

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