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Owen believes that something in the region of 15 to 20 percent of people thought to be in a permanent vegetative state are in fact fully aware.
When virtually the whole of a society, including supposedly thoughtful, educated, intelligent persons, commits itself to belief in propositions that collapse into absurdity upon the slightest examination, the reason is not hallucination or delusion or even simple hypocrisy; rather, it is ideology.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
For example, in a court of law the starting assumption, or null hypothesis, is that the defendant is innocent. The job of the prosecution is to persuade the judge or jury to reject that assumption and accept the alternative hypothesis, which is that the defendant is guilty.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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