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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 11:09 AM
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28. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Particularly when the anecdotes do not comply with anything we know about how the world works, and just generally don't make much sense.

I'm not saying that these people aren't suffering, I'm saying that I'd like to see some evidence that their illness is not psychosmatic. Fear of something that is pretty much everywhere must hold incredible power over these peoples's lives, and that fear does not appear to be based on any actual evidence that their malady exists. Maybe it does, and they need some sort of accommodation, but accommodating without first verifying that a legitimate disability exists puts the cart before the horse
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