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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

RE: Womb environment 'makes men gay'

I've never seen so many weasel words collected together in a single article. There are so many "mays," "mights," and "maybes," it gets to be difficult to tell what the article is really trying to say. Of course, the BBC is trumpeting it as scientific discovery. It really amounts to junk science and the perpetrators of this mess have violated one of the fundamental tenets of empirical observation: correlation is not causation.

As Jiminy Cricket would say, "When you wish upon a star..."

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