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On education, religion, knowledge, and vaccination

The following information can easily be found on the web site of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) here in the US: Vaccination against measles first became available in 1963. Prior to the availability of measles vaccination, some 3 to 4 million people here in the US contracted measles each year. About 500,000 of those …

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“Data” is a plural noun!

How many times have you seen (or heard someone say) something like, "The data shows that 40,000 women will die of breast cancer this year"? Actually, "the data shows" nothing of the sort. For a start, the word "data" is the plural of the singular word "datum" -- from Latin, and the word "datum" originally …

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