Proofiness (the book)

[Joel S. Berson]

There is another review of "Proofiness" in yesterday's NYTimes Book
Review, titled "Fibbing With Numbers".  Quite favorable.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=fibbing+with+numbers&srchst=cse

And I see there's an excerpt from the book in the Times on-line today:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/books/index.html?scp=4&sq=proofiness&st=cse

Joel

At 9/16/2010 10:30 AM, George Thompson wrote:
>Review in today's NYTimes of a new book on the deceptive use of
>numbers, the title alluding to "Truthiness", introduced a few years
>ago and commented on extensively here, as I recall.  (Charles Seife,
>author; Viking, publisher; $25.95)
>
> From the review: "Inflating the size of a crowd to one million is
> the same offense, whether perpetrated about Glenn Beck's "Restoring
> honor" rally (Representative Michelle Bachmann, Republican of
> Minnesota) or a Million Man March (Louis Farrakhan).
>
>Bachmann & Farrakhan.  What's that expression about strange
>bedfellows?  Which would be the more distraught, waking up to find
>the other sharing the pillow?
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
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