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alcaray — 3/25/2003 11:08:49 AM (archived)

Of course it cannot be proven that any particular person died of arsenic in their water (unless there was a lot of arsenic). Nor can you prove that any particular person's lung cancer was caused by smoking.

Good grief, Larry! You can come up with a better argument than that.

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Missile Defense - Tom Brosz - 3/25/2003 4:23:13 PM
- It's not just about stopping missiles... - Nathan Koren - 3/25/2003 5:07:59 PM
  - Not really - Larry J - 3/26/2003 7:35:59 PM
  - Re: It's not just about stopping missiles... - Tom Brosz - 3/25/2003 7:35:18 PM
- What other technologies? (Another open question) - Davin L. - 3/25/2003 4:50:17 PM
  - Layered defense - Larry J - 3/25/2003 7:41:15 PM
- Re: "My take on it is if they deploy a system that only works 20 percent of the time, it's infinitely better than no system at all." - alcaray - 3/25/2003 10:27:54 AM
  - Costs of an attack - Tom Brosz - 3/25/2003 2:47:10 PM
  - The statistic about thousands dying each year from arsenic is bogus - Larry J - 3/25/2003 10:50:00 AM
    - Absolutely hell to be skewered by your own reasoning. - Bowser - 3/25/2003 3:34:50 PM
    - Cool! The tobacco company defense. - alcaray - 3/25/2003 11:08:49 AM
      - On the one hand, you admit that you can't show anyone who died from the allowed arsenic levels in drinking water... - Larry J - 3/25/2003 3:42:43 PM
        
        Arsenic levels - Tom Brosz - 3/25/2003 4:58:44 PM
      - Actually the anti-arsenic people and the anti-missle defense people are using - ebnelson - 3/25/2003 1:57:05 PM
  - Cost analysis is pointless - R.L. - 3/25/2003 10:41:05 AM
    - Two lives are worth exactly two lives; and worth exactly twice as much as one life. - alcaray - 3/25/2003 11:33:18 AM

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