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 03/07/2008 |  Stephen Kinsella |  UL |  

Wired editor Chris Anderson has recently claimed there's so much data available on every topic we don't need theory anymore---just looking at the data is enough. One reaction:

Like finding your wife rubbing butter onto a naked clown shaving your dog, there's just so much wrong with that it's hard to know where to begin.

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