Comments on: Single-Payer Advocates Don’t Care About Facts http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/25/single-payer-advocates-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-facts/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/25/single-payer-advocates-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-facts/#comment-1674 Catron Sun, 27 May 2007 11:44:02 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/25/single-payer-advocates-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-facts/#comment-1674 My point isn’t that you have “missed” facts. It is rather that you don’t care about them, which makes it easy to ignore data or tailor them to fit your position on health care reform. An example of such tailoring is discussed in greater detail <a href="http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/21/lies-damned-lies-and-matthew-holt/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. As to a willingness to “besmirch” people with whom one disagrees, your comment is a study in unintentional irony. Your blog is a cornucopia of ad hominem attacks. In <a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/05/policy_doing_my.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a>, for example, the gratuitous cheap shots begin in the title and continue throughout. My point isn’t that you have “missed” facts. It is rather that you don’t care about them, which makes it easy to ignore data or tailor them to fit your position on health care reform. An example of such tailoring is discussed in greater detail here.

As to a willingness to “besmirch” people with whom one disagrees, your comment is a study in unintentional irony. Your blog is a cornucopia of ad hominem attacks. In this post, for example, the gratuitous cheap shots begin in the title and continue throughout.

]]> By: Matthew Holt http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/25/single-payer-advocates-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-facts/#comment-1663 Matthew Holt Sun, 27 May 2007 03:42:40 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/05/25/single-payer-advocates-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-facts/#comment-1663 I'm glad that in you Mr Browning has a new friend, equally happy to besmirch anyone he's doesn't agree with. And the "facts" that you have that I've missed are which exactly? I’m glad that in you Mr Browning has a new friend, equally happy to besmirch anyone he’s doesn’t agree with. And the “facts” that you have that I’ve missed are which exactly?

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