Guardian.UK: How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next. January 20, 2017 by Garret Vreeland in Politics, Science, Scholarly Either the state continues to make claims that it believes to be valid and is accused by sceptics of propaganda, or else, politicians and officials are confined to saying what feels plausible and intuitively true, but may ultimately be inaccurate. Either way, politics becomes mired in accusations of lies and cover-ups. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond ...