Real Clear Politics hosts a series of articles by economist Thomas Sowell regarding the use, abuse, promulgation and suppression of statistics for political purposes by agencies of the U.S. government and the British Home Office. For example: Some years back, there was a great flurry in the liberal media because a study showed that (1) black pregnant women received prenatal care less often than white pregnant women and that (2) infant mortality rates were higher among blacks. There were indignant editorials in the New York Times and the Washington Post blaming the government for not providing greater access to prenatal care in order to stop preventable deaths of infants. After getting a copy of the original study, I discovered that in the same study —— on the very same page —— statistics showed that (1) Mexican American women received even less prenatal care than black women and that (2) infant mortality rates among Mexican Americans were no higher than among...(Read Full Post)