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Shepard's essay was pretty obviously intended as a response to economists--including Princeton's Alan Blinder, Morgan Stanley's Steve Roach, and me--who have recently been critical of the New Economy doctrine, among other things pointing out (though apparently to little effect) the dependence of that doctrine on the speedometer fallacy.
This idea that harmony between the races is impossible--let's call it the "National Review fallacy"--rests largely on confusion about a form of natural selection known as "kin selection."
There is a sharper contrast between EBM and the methods of clinical experience and observational studies, according to the EBM proponent: uncontrolled studies take certain reports of clinical endpoints as observation sentences - i.e., sentences that would be agreed to by all competent observers, sentences that are the checkpoint and basis for science - when in fact some of those reports do not count as observation sentences; and in other cases, uncontrolled studies may base their conclusions on observation sentences that are too tenuously linked to the claimed result, resulting in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Conservatives continue to fall prey to the fallacy of an impending left turn because they misunderstand Clinton.
But you don't have to be a trained statistician to spot the fallacy at its heart, which is, to quote Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistician John Karon, that "you're only getting the ages of those who die."