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3 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 May 2015 09:34PM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 23 May 2015 08:34:07PM 0 points [-]

"In one of a dozen or so countries where X was done, Y also happened" isn't even terribly strong evidence for "it's not possible in practice to do X without Y also happening", let alone "it's not possible in practice to do anything in some reference class including X without something in some reference class including Y also happening".

I've just noticed that the great-great grandparent comment was explicitly about that one country, so I'm retracting the parent.