[MidnightCafe]

Just thought I'd come back here to say that DD has finished her logic paper in response to Pearl's article, but I'm not sure about having it posted on the web. At first I was excited about it, but I'm concerned that it could catch a lot of flack & criticism. She's too young to have her name circulating around the web attached to something so potentially volatile, but it's really not fair to publish without her name. We're sorting out whether/how to proceed.

I also have to say that her writing was specifically to address logical fallacies. So, while we talked about flaws in the studies, she primarily worked to identify things like red herrings, ad hominem, appeal to the people, etc... It's a bit esoteric. She spent a brief paragraph on how the studies were not controlled for multiple factors and correlation vs. causation, but that wasn't the focus of her paper.